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▪ I. sickening, vbl. n.|ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. the vb. + -ing1.]
The fact of becoming sick or ill; an instance of this.
Also, in dial. use, confinement, child-bed.
1382Wyclif Jer. xvi. 4 With dethes of siknyngus thei shul die. 1816Chalmers Let. in Life (1851) II. 53 To sustain you under all the sickenings, and faintings, and languishings of your earthly disease. 1858Merc. Mar. Mag. V. 305 Not a case nor a sickening has been heard of. 1882Electro-Amalg. Co. Prospectus 5 [It] prevents it from what is technically termed ‘sickening’ in the presence of arsenic, sulphur, oil, or any other substances..deleterious to the action of mercury in amalgamating with gold or silver.
▪ II. sickening, ppl. a.|ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Falling or turning sick.
1725Pope Odyss. iv. 600 The..gentle power..With nectared drops the sickening sense restored. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 272 The malignant influence gained upon her sickening orb. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. viii, Patient the sickening victim eyed The life-blood ebb in crimson tide. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam iii. xxvi. 9 A whirlwind keen as frost Then in its sinking gulfs my sickening spirit tossed.
fig.1728Pope Dunc. iv. 636 The sick'ning stars fade off th' æthereal plain. 1748Gray Alliance 71 Must sick'ning virtue fly the tainted ground? 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. Pref., He thus ranges, without an instructor, confused, and with sickening curiosity, from subject to subject.
2. That causes sickness, nausea, or faintness; that disgusts or revolts; repulsive, loathsome. Also in weakened sense.
1789F. Burney Diary 9 Jan., As they all consisted in almost unheard-of indignities..I will not give the sickening relation. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 123 Nocturnal sweats,..induced by the sickening influence of digitalis. 1836J. Halley in Mem. (1842) 58 Have had a most sickening job in shortening an article of my own for the Presbyterian Review. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. xi. §1 (1862) 747 They gradually putrify and emit a sickening odour. 1886Athenæum 30 Oct. 564/3 Nothing more sickening than the Indian wars of the United States is to be found in history. 1922[see fed pa. pple.]. 1924M. Arlen Green Hat ii. 67 In ten years' time..Hilary will be the only Liberal left in Parliament, looking happier and younger and more sickening than ever. 1925D. G. Mackail Greenery Street viii. 179 But, Ian, Daphne's thing is a subscription dance... Please don't be so sickening. 1937W. H. Saumarez Smith Let. 8 Feb. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 56 Isn't it too sickening that I shall get to Singapore just after Margaret's and Ronald's departure.
transf.1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 101 All base substances..cannot be taken up by the mercury, neither do they have any ‘sickening’ effect upon the mercury.
Hence ˈsickeningly adv.
1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. viii. 180 The duchess was sickeningly civil. 1864Daily Telegr. 27 Sept., The outside is generally burnt up, and the inside sickeningly raw. 1886Sat. Rev. 7 Aug. 183 A series of sickeningly inhuman outrages were committed. |