Containing, resembling, or having the qualities of brimstone (sulfur); archaic descriptor.
From brimstone (Old English bryne-stan, burning stone) + -y (adjective suffix). Medieval writers created this adjective to describe sulfurous materials.
The word 'brimstone' itself is biblical—it's how medieval English speakers translated the Hebrew and Greek words for the literal sulfur mentioned in religious texts.
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