Definition of "vapory"
vapory
adjective
comparative more vapory, superlative most vapory
Quotations
But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads.
1792, William Pine, General Proofs that the Second Advent of the Lord hath Taken Place, and also, the Essential Doctrines of His New Kingdom Stated, Bristol: self-published, page 14
The greatest damps however, that may ever roll upon your spirits, will arise from the stupidity of sinners, and the vapory dullness of declining Christians.
1800, Rosewell Messenger, A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. James Boyd at Bangor on Penobscot River, September 10, 1800, pages 24–5
Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.
Quotations
The most fetid and poisonous smells everywhere prevailed; and by the aid of that ghastly light which, even at midnight, never fails to emanate from a vapory and pestilential atmosphere, might be discerned lying in the by-paths and alleys, or rotting in the windowless habitations, the carcass of many a nocturnal plunderer arrested by the hand of the plague in the very perpetration of his robbery.
1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest