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parasitical, a.|pærəˈsɪtɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. = prec. 1.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1400/2 This is the parasiticall and flattering sermon of a popeling. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 72 Courteous enough to strangers, and Parasitical enough to their superiours. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iv. 93 [He] has faith and credulity enough to believe their parasitical Protestations. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lvi. 65 Poppaea..had entertained a parasitical brood of astrologers about her.
2. Biol. = prec. 2.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 98 Such as living upon the stock of others, are termed Parasiticall plants, as Polypody, Mosse..and many more. 1682Grew Anat. Pl. Pref., I intended to have subjoyned the Description..of Parasitical, Marine, and Sensitive Plants. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 209 Cuscuta... This plant is parasitical, without seed-lobes. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xliv. IV. 228 When hatched..they cease to be parasitical. 1875B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 25 The parasitical disorder removed, the skin was left in an unnaturally irritable state. 1879V. Ball Jungle Life India i. (1880) 41, I observed a species of Viscum, or Mistletoe, parasitical on a Loranthus, which was itself parasitical on Sal (Shorea robusta).
b. = prec. 2 c. Now rare or Obs.
1827Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. vi, Iron railing, twined round with honeysuckle and other parasitical shrubs. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxvii. (1849) 300 Interlaced by creeping and parasitical plants.
3. Min. = prec. 3.
1811J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 22 The slits of a marble, or of a slate, filled with spar or quartz..these foreign bodies, or parasitical, as Linnæus calls them, have been [etc.].
Hence paraˈsiticalness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Parasiticalness, fawningness, flatteringness. 1838Jackson tr. Krummacher's Elisha xii. 277 Our unworthy parasiticalness with respect to the higher ranks. |