erumpent

[Lat. erumpens, pr. par. of erumpo = to burst or break out: e= ex =out, and rumpo to break, to burst.] Bot .: Breaking out. e-run-da, ě-rin-di, s . [Mahratta & Hind.erunda =the castor-oil plant; Mahratta erundel =castor oil.] For def. see etym. ( Anglo - Indian .) e-rŭpt', v. t. & i. [Lat. erupt us, pa. par. of erumpo =to burst or break out.] A. Trans.: To throw out or eject with violence; to emit violently. "Erupted, sedimentary, metamorphosed, conglomerated aggregates of mineral matter." - S. Highley , in Ca ell's Technical Educator , pt. ii., p. 358. B. In trans.: To burst or break out suddenly; to give vent to eruptions. e-rup-tion, s. [Lat. eruptio, from erupt us, pa. par. of erumpo; Fr. éruption; Sp. erupcion; Ital. eruzione.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of bursting or breaking out from any confinement or restraint; a sudden burst or emi ion. "Anon with black eruption from its jaws A night of smoke, thick driving, wave on wave In stormy flow." Mallet: The Excursion, i. 2. In the same sense as II. 1. 3. That which bursts or breaks out. [II. 2.] "From the volcanoes gro eruptions rise." Garth: Dispensary , i. 109. *4. A sudden excursion of a hostile nature. "The confusion of things, the eruptions of barbarians did all turn to account for him."-Barrow: Of the Pope's Supremacy. *5. A violent exclamation or ejaculation. "To his secretary, whom he laid in a pallet near him for natural ventilation of his thoughts, he would, in the absence of all other ears and eyes, break out into bitter and pa ionate eruptions ." -Wotton: Life of Bucking ham. II. Technically: 1. Medical: 1693