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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having the nature or properties of an unguent or ointment; greasy, oily.

   “It is, of the one part, / A humide exhalation, vvhich vve call / Materia liquida, or the Vnctuous VVater; […]”

2. sıfat Having fat or oil present; fatty, greasy, oily.

   “Meates fatte and vnctuouſe, nouryſheth, and maketh ſoluble.”

3. sıfat Of an aroma or taste, or a beverage (such as coffee or wine) or food (such as gravy, meat, or sauce): having layers of concentrated, velvety flavour; lush, rich.

   “Again, Taſts may properly be ſaid, to be Soft or Hard. A Soft Taſte, is either Vapid, as in VVatery Bodies, VVhites of Eggs, Starch, Fine Boles, &c. Or Unctuous, as in Oyls, Fat, &c. […] Contrary to an Unctuous Taſte, are Aſtringent, and Pungent; as in Galls, and Spirit of Sal Aromanick.”

4. sıfat Of soil: soft and sticky.

   “Furthermore, good and excellent Earth ſhould be of the ſame conſtitution, and not of contrary, as ſoft and hard; churliſh and mild; moiſt and dry; not too unctuous nor too lean, but reſoluble, and of a juſt and procreative temper, combining into a light, and eaſily crumbling Mould; […]”

5. sıfat Complacent, self-satisfied, smug.
6. sıfat Profusely polite, especially in an insincere and unpleasant manner.

   “"No bankers' books, or cheque books, or bill, or such tokens of wealth rolling in from day to day?" said old Sol, looking wistfully at his nephew out of the fog that always seemed to hang about him, and laying an unctuous emphasis upon the words.”