Meanings (ES + gloss)
lunático • voluble • volátil
Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
[Y]our Mercuriall wit hath mangonized a Gigantean fury with an humble hue.
his mercurial temperament
mercurial
Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
mercurial • mercúrico
Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
[I]n the month of May, a mercurial thermometer, having its bulb covered with paper, and blackened in a similar manner to the spirit one, was inclosed in a square bottle of thin gla…
mercurial
Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.
Near-synonym: Hermesian
[Benjamin] Franklin, the mechanic of his own fortune, [...] tendering, from the self-created nation, to the mightiest monarchs of Europe, the olive-branch of peace, the mercurial w…
Phrases
intermercurialintramercurialmercurial eczemamercurial fingermercurial glossitismercurial ointmentmercurial phosphorusmercurial pneumatic troughmercurial rashmercurial troughmercurialisationmercurialisemercurialismmercurialistmercurialitymercurializationmercurializemercuriallymercurialnessnonmercurialorganomercurialphenylmercurialunmercurial