hydrophobousadj.
/hʌɪˈdrɒfəbəs/ 1. = hydrophobic adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies
hydrophobical1650
hydrophobial1662
hydrophobous1684
rabid1733
hydrophobic1807
rabific1838
rabic1841
hydrophobious1843
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 262 The canine madness quickly shews it self in the Hydrophobous.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 309 Smothered up in down..like an hydrophobous patient.
1842 T. De Quincey Mod. Greece in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 124/1 If we should suddenly prove hydrophobous in the middle of this paper.
2. Having a dread of water. (Cf. hydrophobia n. 2.)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > having irrational fears
hydrophobous1748
necrophobic1857
pantophobic1857
agoraphobic1878
claustrophobic1889
pantophobous1893
phobic1897
ailurophobic1905
claustrophobiac1934
scotophobic1936
phobiac1944
mycophobic1957
school-phobic1960
aquaphobic1968
ochlophobic1976
computer-phobic1983
arachniphobe1984
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 298 Sometimes Horses are afraid of Water, and such are said to be Hydrophobous.
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