On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:24:15 +0000, David Boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thinking of Eliot's deployment of 'piaculative' - did the adjective
previously exist in dormant obscurity, or did Eliot just invent it?


Probably just invented it. A Google search with terms to exclude Eliot
didn't find much either on the web or in books. I used:
   piaculative -pustular -eliot -translation -definition -poetry