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deleterious, a.|dɛlɪˈtɪərɪəs|
[f. mod.L. dēlētēri-us, a. Gr. δηλητήρι-ος noxious, hurtful, f. δηλήτηρ destroyer, f. δηλέ-εσθαι to hurt: see -ous.]
Hurtful or injurious to life or health; noxious.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §10 They were not deleterious to others onely, but to themselves also. 1646― Pseud. Ep. iii. vii. 119 Deleterious it may bee at some distance and destructive without a corporall contaction. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. xci, In some places, those plants which are entirely poisonous at home lose their deleterious quality by being carried abroad. 1821Byron Juan iv. lii, 'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. 1869Phillips Vesuv. viii. 213 This gas was well known to be deleterious.
b. Mentally or morally injurious or harmful.
1823Byron Juan xiii. i, A jest at vice by virtue's called a crime, And critically held as deleterious. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Power Wks. (Bohn) II. 335 Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Hence deleˈteriously adv., deleˈteriousness.
1812Shelley Let. 29 July (1964) I. 316, I have no doubts on the deleteriousness of classical education. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 359/1 The solution should not be deleteriously affected. 1892W. B. Scott Autobiog. I. i. 15 David was..deleteriously influenced by studying these able but imperfect artists. |