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▪ I. destroying, vbl. n.|dɪˈstrɔɪɪŋ|
[f. destroy v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb destroy; destruction: now chiefly gerundial.
c1300K. Alis. 2888 Never siththe that destroying N'as in Thebes wonying. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 322 To telle hasty destriyng of hem. c1400Apol. Loll. 69 Forsoþ if he lay doun þe suerd..he opuniþ þe distroyingis. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 138 They..consented to the destroying down of the fair Gardens about the Town, to begin the Fortifications. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 129 For onely in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts. 1805Ld. Collingwood in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 271, I determined no longer to delay the destroying them.
b. Naut. colloq. The action of serving in a destroyer.
1931‘Taffrail’ Endless Story i. 21 Most destroyer officers, their detractors averred, went in for ‘destroying’ because they..needed the extra pay.
▪ II. deˈstroying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That destroys, destructive. destroying angel U.S. = Danite 2.
1535Coverdale Ezek. xxi. 8 The destroyenge staff of my sonne, shal bringe downe all wodde. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 21 Novelty and Singleness were as destroying..to Art, as..Barbarism. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 92 To oppose the inroad of this destroying host. 1814Southey Roderick xxv, Replete with power he is, and terrible, Like some destroying Angel! 1838Peoria (Ill.) Register 24 Nov. 1/5 They had assembled them into three different societies, called Danites, Gideonites, and the destroying Angels. 1857[see Danite 2]. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It (1882) xii. 71 Half an hour..later we changed horses, and took supper with a Mormon ‘Destroying Angel’. 1894Ld. Wolseley Life of Marlborough II. xci. 437 Soul-and-body-destroying debauchery. 1943B. De Voto Yr. of Decision 83 So in 1842 O. P. Rockwell, one of the Sons of Dan (the ‘Destroying Angels’ of ten-cent fiction), crept up to a window in Boggs's house and shot him.
Add: destroying angel (b) , a highly poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita, spec. A. virosa.
1887W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi x. 164 Agaricus vernus; Amanita verna; The Destroying Angel... Angelically beautiful and demoniacally poisonous. 1945J. Ramsbottom Poisonous Fungi 19 Amanita virosus [sic], destroying angel. Amanita verna and Amanita virosa are both closely allied to Amanita phalloides and are often regarded as varieties or sub-species. 1961W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iv. 171 One variety quite similar to the meadow mushroom but less common and often found in the woods is the Destroying Angel. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 289/2 A[manita] verna and A. virosa, the destroying angels, are the deadliest of all mushrooms. They develop a large white fruiting body and are found in forests during wet periods in summer and autumn. 1990Times 13 Oct. 18/3 In Britain we have the Death Cap and the Destroying Angel, the world's two deadliest fungi. |