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innocuous, a.|ɪˈnɒkjuːəs| [f. L. innocu-us (f. in-, in-3 + nocuus (rare), f. root of nocēre to hurt) + -ous.] Not hurtful or injurious; harmless. In Zool. applied spec. to the non-venomous snakes (constituting the division Innocua).
1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 171 The still hours of his innocuous life. 1638Cowley Love's Riddle ii. Wks. (1684) ii. 75 To spend the rest of my..days in their innocuous sports. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 107 All these innocuous and harmlesse creatures. 1791Cowper Iliad v. 20 But over Diomedes' left shoulder passed The point innocuous. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. Pref. 14 Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous. 1861Delamer Kitch. Gard. 93 Spinach-juice furnishes an innocuous colouring-matter. |