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noxious, a.|ˈnɒkʃəs|
Also 7 noctious.
[ad. L. noxius, f. noxa hurt, damage.]
1. Injurious, hurtful, harmful; unwholesome.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 387 The adjacent parts being freed from many noxious humours thereby. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 221 Many would have it an unprofitable excrement and of a noxious or hurtful quality. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 460 Being oft times noxious where they light On man, beast, plant. 1711Addison Spect. No. 121 ⁋1 That seeming Sagacity in Animals, which..makes them naturally avoid whatever is noxious or unwholsome. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 157 The body, full of noxious humours, feels the torment. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 87 The liver is always given to the dogs, and that may possibly be the noxious part. 1880Haughton Phys. Geogr. iv. 190 It blows over the whole island steadily, a cold noxious wind.
†2. Guilty, criminal. Obs. rare.
1623Cockeram i, Noxious, guilty. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 171 Whether Magicians and Astrologers be..noxious or guilty of a diabolical compact and commerce. 1656Bramhall Replic. iii. 130 No man or Society of men can be justly punished..because they are noxious, unless they be noxious in the eye of the Law.
3. noxious weed, a weed growing on neglected land, esp., in Australia and New Zealand, one considered harmful to animals, which may be the subject of regulations governing attempts to control it.
1897Bull. Central Exper. Farm Dept. Agric. (Canada) No. 28. 5 Under special circumstances some of our native wild plants may increase and become ‘noxious weeds’. 1913F. M. Bailey Comprehensive Catal. Queensland Plants 259 Many of the species [of Calotis] are noxious weeds, but it would be impossible to get rid of them by Act of Parliament. 1923R. Macaulay Told by an Idiot iii. 256 As to Ireland, a bill was passed to reduce her docks, thistles, and noxious weeds: no other bill. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. vii. 142 Inspectors call [on New Zealand farmers] to make sure..that noxious weeds, weeds officially proscribed, are controlled. 1971Guardian 12 Aug. 1/5 She is not opposed to the killing..of clumps of noxious weeds like docks or thistles. 1973Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. VIII. 103/2 A ‘wild flower’ is defined as a plant indigenous to the Republic of South Africa, except noxious weeds.
Hence ˈnoxiously adv., in a noxious manner; injuriously, perniciously.
1755in Johnson. 1811Byron Let. to Dallas 21 Aug., A most decided atheist, indeed noxiously so. 1879M. Arnold Mixed Ess., Democracy 24 That which operates noxiously in the one, may operate wholesomely in the other. |