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Fugacious  adj.  
1.
Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. "Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase."
2.
(Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.





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"Fugacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... (BHOTAN PINE.) Leaves in fives, from short, fugacious, overlapping, membranaceous sheaths, 6 to 7 in. long, very slender, of a glaucous-green color, and very pendulous. Cones 6 to 9 in. long, and 2 in. in diameter, drooping and clustered, with broad, thick, wedge-shaped scales. A large beautiful ...
— Trees of the Northern United States - Their Study, Description and Determination • Austin C. Apgar
... of sadness which belongs to beautiful apparitions starting out of darkness upon the morbid eye, only to be reclaimed by darkness in the instant of their birth, or which belongs to pageantries in the clouds. But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps, there are many degrees of frailty. Some fireworks require an hour's duration for the expansion of their glory; others, as if formed from fulminating powder, expire in the very act ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... choice barrels to fulfil an order. He turns a specked one over many times before he leaves it out. If I were to tell what is passing in my mind, I should say that every one was specked which he had handled; for he rubs off all the bloom, and those fugacious ethereal qualities leave it. Cool evenings prompt the farmers to make haste, and at length I see only the ladders here and there left leaning ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various


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