ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pilula (pill) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Dorothea’s inferences may seem large; but really life could never have gone on at any period but for this liberal allowance of conclusion, which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization. Has anyone ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?…”
From: Middlemarch
– George Eliot, 1871
Lexicophilia 