释义 |
tetrous, a. Now rare.|ˈtɛtrəs| [f. L. tæter (tēter) offensive, foul + -ous.] Offensive, foul. Sometimes from contiguity of form and sense confused with tetterous: so in quot. 1890.
1637Brian Pisse-proph. (1679) 133 Your heart and head are assaulted with a tetrous vapour, so that you are melancholick and cannot take your rest. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 411 The Decoction [of Elder buds] is admirable to assuage inflammations and tetrous humours and especially the Scorbutis. 1890A. W. Tourgee in Chicago Advance 27 Mar., A leper whose tetrous spots threaten every soul that looks upon them. |