单词 | mortiferous |
释义 | mortiferousadj. 1. Bringing or causing spiritual death. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective] > causing spiritual death mortiferous1533 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [adjective] > bringing spiritual death mortiferous1533 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [adjective] > causing spiritual death mortiferous1533 lethal1583 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani xxxii. sig. Qviij Howe late they waxed wyse, howe late they beganne to hate their mortyferous and deedly pleasures. 1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. F.iij In the body of him, which without ony carnall entisementes & mortiferous delectacion was conceaued. 1654 H. Hammond Of Fund. in Notion viii. 73 While we make no distinction of sins, and deem every invincible infirmity..to be as dangerous and mortiferous as the most wilful act. 1689 R. Wild Benefice iv. 40 You shall vivificate the mortiferous Essence of my Intellectuals, and invocate into this Domical one that will not contaminate your Family; but perprecate the Deities. 1844 S. R. Maitland tr. Eligius in Dark Ages 117 Whenever you sin, do not wait in mortiferous security until your wounds putrefy. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 198 Every erroneous doctrine..is only the repetition of an earlier error,..the venom enfeebled or more mortiferous. 1920 K. E. Kirk Some Princs. Moral Theol. xi. 249 It has..been suggested that the conception of mortal sin would be more easily grasped if it were spoken of as mortiferous—as leading directly to spiritual death. 2. Bringing or causing physical death; death-dealing, deadly. 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 a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. F.ijv They spake with new tongs without humane instruction, Some reuiued the dead and maladies mortiferous. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 20 The perelus poysoun, mortiferus melancolie,..In that distres hes done him for to de. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vi. x. 240 Burnt up by this mortiferous Fever. 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 74 The Cicuta..whatever it is in any other Country, 'tis certainly Mortiferous in ours. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. vi. 43/1 Many of them..were a fair Mark for the Mortiferous Bullets. 1815 C. Lloyd Octavia v. iv. 122 I have already with my breath absorbed The dust mortiferous. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 40 That fevers are in these regions the natural expression of mortiferous influences generally. 1902 Fortn. Rev. June 1019 If such a ‘mortiferous’ action really exists, perhaps it could be checked chemically. 1951 Amer. Naturalist 85 139 Having never previously noted dart-wounds to be mortiferous in Helminthoglypta, [etc.]. 1996 Representations Winter 99 Plague continued to be massively mortiferous: in 1720–21,..Marseilles lost about half of its population of ninety thousand. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [adverb] deadlyc1050 deathlya1250 fellyc1330 mortallyc1390 à la mort?1536 deadlily1621 lethally1661 mortiferously1685 perishingly1698 deathfully1761 vitally1891 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xlii. 364 That was not the healing of the Beast, but the mortiferously wounding the Dragon. morˈtiferousness n. rare deadliness. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [noun] > lethal quality mortality?a1439 deadlinessc1450 mortalness1638 lethality1656 mortiferousness1856 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 340 The pure mortiferousness of this mind, capable neither of patience, fidelity, grace, or wit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1533 |
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