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nauseous, a.|ˈnɔːʃ(ɪ)əs, ˈnɔːsɪəs, ˈnɔːzɪəs|
Also 7 naus-, nauc-, 8 nautious.
[f. nause-a + -ous, or ad. L. nauseōs-us (Pliny); cf. F. nauséeux.]
†1. Inclined to nausea; fastidious. Obs. rare.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (1613), Nauseous, loathing or disposed to vomit. 1651French Distill. v. 144 It may be given..to children or those that are of a nauseous stomack. 1678Ray Prov. (ed. 2) Pref., I have..so veiled them, that I hope they will not turn the stomach of the most nauseous.
2. a. Causing nausea or squeamishness; in later use also, highly unpleasant to the taste or smell.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 308 To expel nauseous distempers. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 27, I have no heart to the voyage, least their nauseous shapes and the Sea, should work too sorely upon my stomach. 1744Berkeley Siris §1 This method produceth tar-water of a nauseous kind. 1781Cowper Hope 509 The full-gorged savage, at his nauseous feast Spent half the darkness. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge vii, Cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. 1875Helps Soc. Press. vi. 80, I used to eat the nauseous bits first.
absol.1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 53 (1794) II. 287 To imitate our fashionable physicians in mixing up together..the nauseous and the nice.
b. Of tastes or smells: Nasty, unpleasant.
1727Philip Quarll 217 More offensive than the most nautious Odour of an old Sepulchre. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 155 This both improves the medicine, and takes off the nauseous taste. 1828Sir J. E. Smith Eng. Flowers II. 15 A strong, permanent, nauseous odour, like stale salt⁓fish. 1868W. S. O. Figuier's Ocean World i. 17 A peculiar flavour, slightly acrid and bitter, and a little nauseous.
3. fig. Loathsome, disgusting; highly offensive.
1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 21 To those..The good does nauseous or insipid grow. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. Ded., Greatness they said was nauseous, and a Crowd was troublesome. 1751Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 337 All affectation of talking piously is quite nauseous. 1771Junius Lett. liv. (1788) 299, I will not insist upon the nauseous detail. 1817Byron Beppo lxxxvi, A deal of swearing, And nauseous words past mentioning or bearing. 1852Gladstone Glean. (1879) IV. 129 A piece of nauseous affectation. 1885Manch. Exam. 30 Mar. 5/2 He had persecuted her..with his nauseous attentions. |