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Definition
lacking sufficient water or rainfall
or:
lacking vitality or spirit
or:
lacking vitality or spirit
- ...her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.Episode 17 — Ithaca (50% in)
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