† mordicativeadj.

Forms: late Middle English mordicatyue, 1500s mordicatife, 1600s mordicatiue, 1600s mordicative.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mordicatif; Latin mordicativus.

Etymology: < Middle French mordicatif caustic, irritant (early 14th cent. in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin mordicativus (5th cent.; from mid 13th cent. in British sources) < mordicat- , past participial stem of mordicare (see mordicate v.) + -ivus -ive suffix. Compare mordicant adj. and slightly earlier mordication n.

Obsolete.

That bites or stings; sharp, pungent, caustic; acerbic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > pungent

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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 127 If þai be feled hote & mordicatyue [?c1425 Paris bitynge; L. mordicatiue]..it is signified þat it is hote.

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 79 (MED) If vitriol be combust, it is lesse mordicatyue.

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 87 (MED) If þis puluis war noȝt mordicatyue, it shuld in prise passe al medicynez.

1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man iv. f. 68 This disease riquireth sharp medicines as those which be mordicatife or biting, abstersife or clensinge, or perchance cautherization [printed cantherization].

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 944 Whereas the conceits and jests of Aristophanes are bitter and sharpe withall, carrying with them a mordicative qualitie.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1187 That the aire in the citie of Delphos was..mordicative, as witnesseth the speedie concoction of meat that it causeth.

1634 R. H. tr. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 45 The cause why this fume is mordicative is by reason that the wine that it commeth of, is mordicative.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	mordicative
释义	† mordicativeadj. Forms: late Middle English mordicatyue, 1500s mordicatife, 1600s mordicatiue, 1600s mordicative. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mordicatif; Latin mordicativus. Etymology: < Middle French mordicatif caustic, irritant (early 14th cent. in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin mordicativus (5th cent.; from mid 13th cent. in British sources) < mordicat- , past participial stem of mordicare (see mordicate v.) + -ivus -ive suffix. Compare mordicant adj. and slightly earlier mordication n. Obsolete. That bites or stings; sharp, pungent, caustic; acerbic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > pungent sharpc1000 hotc1175 poignantc1387 keen1398 angryc1400 eager?c1400 tartc1405 argutec1420 mordicative?a1425 mordificative?a1425 piperinea1425 pungitive?a1425 pikea1475 vehement1490 oversharpa1500 over-stronga1500 penetrating?1576 penetrative1578 quick1578 piercing1593 exalted1594 mordicant1603 acute1620 toothed1628 pungent1644 piquant1645 tartarous1655 mordacious1657 piperate1683 peppery1684 tartish1712 hyperoxide1816 snell1835 mordanta1845 shrill1864 piperitious1890 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 127 If þai be feled hote & mordicatyue [?c1425 Paris bitynge; L. mordicatiue]..it is signified þat it is hote. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 79 (MED) If vitriol be combust, it is lesse mordicatyue. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 87 (MED) If þis puluis war noȝt mordicatyue, it shuld in prise passe al medicynez. 1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man iv. f. 68 This disease riquireth sharp medicines as those which be mordicatife or biting, abstersife or clensinge, or perchance cautherization [printed cantherization]. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 944 Whereas the conceits and jests of Aristophanes are bitter and sharpe withall, carrying with them a mordicative qualitie. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1187 That the aire in the citie of Delphos was..mordicative, as witnesseth the speedie concoction of meat that it causeth. 1634 R. H. tr. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 45 The cause why this fume is mordicative is by reason that the wine that it commeth of, is mordicative. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.?a1425
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