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▪ I. poisoning, vbl. n.|ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ|
[f. poison v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb poison.
c1440Promp. Parv. 407/1 Poysenynge, intoxicacio. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark v. 30 b, Treasons and poysoninges, with the practise of art Magike or sorcery. 1626Bacon Sylva §915 Poisoning of air is no less dangerous than poisoning of water. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 10 A poysoninge of my Lord's honor with the Duke, with the King, and with the rest of the nobility. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. iii. 34 In case of murder by poisoning, a man may be a principal felon, by preparing and laying the poison.
b. As the second element in combinations with words denoting (a) the agent or medium, as beer-poisoning, food-poisoning, fungus-poisoning, phosphorus-poisoning, (b) the object, as blood-poisoning: see blood n. 21.
1897Phosphorus poisoning [see phosphorus 4]. 1900Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 6/2 The number of persons..who have been or are suffering from beer-poisoning amounts to about 1,200. 1902Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 3/4 The microbe..discovered by Dr. Klein in the Welbeck food-poisoning cases. 1904Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 10/1 A very considerable number of the cases of fungus-poisoning recorded annually.
▪ II. ˈpoisoning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That poisons; poisonous.
1604F. Herring Mod. Defence 24 The poisoning quality of Arsenicke. 1828Bp. A. Jolly Sunday Serv. (1840) 246 Temporal quiet often proves intoxicating and poisoning by its..pleasures. 1847Emerson Poems, Woodnotes ii. 69 Whom the city's poisoning spleen Made not pale, or fat, or lean. |