单词 | exitial |
释义 | exitialadj. Now literary and somewhat rare. Hurtful; destructive; ruinous; deadly, fatal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective] deadlyc893 deathlyOE deathfula1250 mortalc1390 capitalc1426 exitialc1475 fey1488 mortuala1500 perishinga1500 fatal?1518 ferial1528 mortiferousa1538 deadc1540 exitious?1545 deathlike1548 mortifying1555 starvingc1600 lethal1604 speedingc1604 vital1612 irrecoverable1614 feral1621 lethiferous1651 mortific1651 mortifical1657 daggering1694 exitiose1727 fateful1764 kill-devil1831 unsurvivable1839 lethiferal1848 tachythanatous1860 c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 515 (MED) To have reuardis and thankynges and not to be put to exicialle destruccion. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 177 The charge of regalitie..had benne hurtfull and exitiall to so manie his predecessors. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 123 These menn..had ynoughe to doe to..defer the exitiall fall of their contrie. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Achilles Shield 8 Betwixt them flew debate, Disorderd Tumult, and exitial Fate. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 220 The byting of it is very exitiall and deadly. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 1) 382 They [sc. heresies] are exitiall and pestilent to the kingdomes..where they are admitted. 1706 J. Evelyn Acetaria in Sylva (ed. 4) App. 208 [Mushrooms are] malignant, exitial, mortal, and deleterious. 1730 A. Brice Freedom 17 Long-Finger's Cuirass, and exitial Edge Of Shears, not daunted, sputters, swills, and foams, With mighty Bawl. 1829 J. Dunlop Oliver Cromwell ii. 99 Whom..the frantic Jews Bled to the death, hung ghastly on a tree.., as the help And cure of mortal and exitial sin. 1880 F. F. Benvenuti Episodes French Revol. vii. 48 Existence, languishing in laxity and vapidness, struggled but in vain against the exitial effluvia evolved from it. The storm must burst or life cease. 1962 Phoenix 16 184 Cicero expatiated on the scelerity, the immanity, the incredibly flagitious, nay rather the totally exitial prodigiosity of the conspiracy. 1997 J. Foreman in B. Bennett & N. Harte Crabtree Orations 1954–1994 (2005) xxxvi. 238 The seminal questions are to the cause of Mozart's death and the part of Crabtree in this exitial affair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1475 |
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