Word of the Day: EXUNDATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin exundat- participial stem of exundare,
from ex- (out) + undare (to rise in waves), from unda (wave)

EXAMPLE
“… Thus armed, he advanced to the well. The yew-twig struck the bright motionless water, and strongly agitated it. The stream exundated on every side, kindled as it mounted, and, tumbling and commingling, in a few seconds, like an enormous flame of fire, rolled forwards and backwards round the margin of the fountain. …”

From: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Volume LVI. July-December 1844
Traditions and Tales of Upper Lusatia
No. III. The Dwarf’s Well

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