vaporous

Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.

Hovv can darkneſſe be called a Maſſe? &c. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither.

For the great rock has screened the westering sun / That still on plains beyond streams vaporous gold / Among the branches; […]

Breathing out or giving off vapour.

Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.

O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.

[W]e ſee that the very aire it ſelfe is never conglaciate nor frozen, nor hardened, conſidering that miſts, fogs and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and thickenings of a moiſt and vapourous aire: for the true aire indeed vvhich hath no vapour at all and is altogether drie, admitteth no ſuch refrigeration as may alter it to that degree and heigth ^([sic]).

Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds / Along the pebbled shore of memory! / Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be / Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified / To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, / And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.

Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.

So vvhoſoeuer ſhall entertaine high and vapourous imaginations, in ſteede of a laborious and ſober inquiry of truth ſhall beget hopes and Beliefes of ſtrange and impoſſible ſhapes.

Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.