exitiousadj.

?1545 C. Langton Introd. Phisycke vi. f. lxxxxv^v So muche the lesse..to spend the tyme in exitious labour whyche god hath ordeyned for euery creature to reste in.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 242 Setting up of images in churches..proved not only harmful, but exitious and pestilent.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋241 Exitious humours are forced out of the body.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ccc3^v In Persia they found this Tree [sc. Peach] to be exitious.

1709 Brit. Apollo 7–9 Dec. Blind to Events, however they might prove, Or Proditorious or Exitious.

1785 L. Booker Poems II. 109 To snatch from death's exitious cold embrace The languid frame, and animate it fresh.

1809 M. J. O'Conway tr. F. Raynouard Knights Templars i. iv. 20 There is still time to shelter them from the exitious lightning of the impending tempest.

1844 Monthly Rev. Sept. 66 A something which..shocks and is therefore exitious to those feelings of delight and admiration with which we would have otherwise risen from the perusal of this most beautiful poem.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Exitious, same as Exitial.

2006 D. M. Cornish Monster Blood Tattoo 365 Any biologue that is allowed to grow unchecked like this is said to be exitious (said ‘eck-zi-shoos’) or ruinous.