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inimical, a.|ɪˈnɪmɪkəl|
[ad. late L. inimīcālis (Sidonius), f. inimīcus unfriendly, hostile, an enemy, f. in- (in-3) + amīcus friend: see -al1.]
1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly, hostile. Const. to.
1678Phillips (ed. 4) List Barbarous Words, Inimical, having an enmity against. 1758Richardson Corr. (1804) V. 189 Poor Dr. Clayton! inimical man! Persecutor to his power! 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. ii. 324 A prince inimical to civil and religious liberty. 1794Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 395 Nine-tenths of the nation are inimical to the government. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xi. (1862) 158 Their ravages are confined to hostile countries and inimical nations. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 24 Equally inimical to democracy and tyranny. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie II. iii. 41 The few goats on the mountain were for a time very inimical to him.
2. Adverse or injurious in tendency or influence; harmful, hurtful. Const. to.
1643E. Udall Serm. (1645) 18 The Papists..slander the doctrine of salvation by faith as inimicall to good works. 1683Tryon Way to Health 185 [Ignorant persons] are diligent to procure such things as are inimical and hurtful to it [health]. 1783Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 3 July, [To] fortify me against the winter, which has been, in modern phrase, of late years very inimical to, Madam, Your [etc.]. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 169 Practices inimical to health. 1879D. M. Wallace Australas. xi. 226 Fresh water is very inimical to coral.
Hence iˈnimically adv., in an inimical or hostile manner; iˈnimicalness = next.
1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 26 Accidental inimicalness to Planets, is when they are in square or opposition, &c. the one to the other. Also Inimicalness must needs be in the Signs. 1836Smart, Inimically. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 99 Danskermen were on their part inimically estranged from their Roman kinsmen. 1872M. Collins Pr. Clarice II. viii. 107 Josephine received them not inimically. |