单词 | internecive |
释义 | interneciveadj. Now somewhat rare. Of a conflict: (originally) mutually destructive or antagonistic; (now chiefly) taking place within a group or society, internal. Cf. internecine adj. 1b, 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > mutually killing self-kill1599 internecine1755 internecive1819 society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [adjective] > civil civila1387 intestine1535 internecive1819 intestinala1861 1819 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 302 An internecive war between the gamekeepers and marauders of game. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxi. 210 The precise index of that growing internecive hostility. 1853 G. S. Faber Revival French Emperorship 51 The latter scenes of this internecive war. 1893 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 28 Sept. 4/2 No market is likely to be so intensely affected by the Argentine war as might have been the case in Brazil had the struggle in the latter country been of an internecive character in the coffee districts. 1962 Spectator 20 July 81/2 Some luckless would-be PhD will hack out a thesis on ‘Internecive Jealousies Among the Slighter Mid-Twentieth-Century English Poets’. 1987 A. K. Singh Polit. Orientation People Rural India iv. 167 The [sc. political parties] always incited the sentiments of their followers leading to an internecive conflict between different factions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1819 |
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