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poisonous, a.|ˈpɔɪzənəs|
[f. poison n. + -ous.]
1. Containing or of the nature of poison; having the quality or properties of a poison; venomous.
1573–80Baret Alv. P 546 Poisonous. Venemous, full of poison, stinking, of an euill taste, virulentus. 1665Dryden & Howard Ind. Queen iii. i, Yet we destroy the poisonous viper's young. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 209 Nor pois'nous Aconite is here produc'd. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 15/2 A Steam..so poysonous, that..it..infected all Asia. 1866Treas. Bot. 109 The Deadly Nightshade... All parts of the plant are poisonous. Ibid., When taken in large or poisonous doses.
2. fig.
a. Morally destructive or corrupting; conveying an evil influence; malevolent, malignant. Also in trivial use, unpleasant, nasty.
a1586Sidney Astr. & Stella civ, Enuious wits, what hath bene mine offence, That with such poysonous care my lookes you marke? 1660Trial Regic. 14 Many Poysonous Opinions having gone abroad. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam ix. xv, The falsehood of their poisonous lips. 1904Benson Challoners xiii, Yes, it is nonsense... It is poisonous, suicidal nonsense. 1906Daily Chron. 6 Mar. 4/7 ‘Awfully’, ‘rotten’—and ‘poisonous’, which is rapidly superseding both—are probably the most ill-used words in the English language as it is spoken. 1912E. Pugh Harry the Cockney xi. 121 Foolish habit to think at any time, Weaver. But to think on an empty stomach—it's poisonous. Poisonous! 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xii. 225, I thought the weather was absolutely poisonous. 1929P. Gibbs Hidden City xxxix. 189 It's something to do with that poisonous little beast Benito..the boy she dances with.
†b. With of: Having the quality of poisoning or destroying; destructive of. Obs.
1607Shakes. Cor. v. iii. 135 You might condemne vs As poysonous of your Honour.
3. Comb.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. ii. 5 What false Italian, (As poysonous tongu'd, as handed)?
Hence ˈpoisonously adv. (in quot. 1646 = by poison); ˈpoisonousness.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 175 The Antipathy between a Toad and a Spider, and that they poisonously destroy each other, is very famous. 1727Bailey vol. II, Poisonousness, poisonous Quality. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. viii. 245 Foul air which acts poisonously upon the system. |