odourodorn.

Brit.

/ˈəʊdə/, U.S.

/ˈoʊdər/

Forms: Middle English hodure, Middle English odir, Middle English odur, Middle English odure, Middle English odyr, Middle English order (transmission error), Middle English ordure (transmission error), Middle English oudour, Middle English ouþer (transmission error), Middle English–1500s odeur, Middle English–1500s odoure, Middle English–1500s odowr, Middle English–1500s odowre, Middle English– odor (now U.S.), Middle English– odour, 1500s oder; Scottish pre-1700 odere, pre-1700 odire, pre-1700 odor, pre-1700 odore, pre-1700 odoure, pre-1700 odyre, pre-1700 1700s– odour. N.E.D. (1902) records also forms Middle English odere, Middle English odire.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French odur; Latin odōr-, odor.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French odur, odor, odour (all 12th cent.), Old French, Middle French oudeur (13th cent.), Middle French odeur (1380; French odeur ) smell, scent, impression which a person makes upon others, and its etymon classical Latin odōr-, odor smell, pleasant scent, unpleasant smell, substance that emits a sweet smell or scent, perfume, spice, in post-classical Latin also sense of smell (c1230–50 in the passage translated in quot. a1450 at sense 3) < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ὀδ- to smell (see odmyl n.), Lithuanian uosti to smell, uoslė odour, Armenian hot odour, smell.Forms in -our are commoner than those in -or in Middle English, and remain so until at least the end of the 18th cent. The form in -our is now usual in British English, while that in -or is usual in the United States: see further -or suffix. Technical derivative formations corresponding semantically to odour n. have classical Latin odōr- , odor as the first element. In phrases at sense 4b after Middle French, French en mauvaise odeur (1585), en bonne odeur (Cotgrave 1611). In odour of sanctity (see sense 5) after French odeur de sainteté (second half of the 17th cent.), a sweet or balsamic odour supposed to have been emitted by the bodies of saints at or after death, and regarded as attesting their saintship; compare post-classical Latin odor sanctitatis (8th cent. or earlier), odor suavitatis (6th cent.); with to die in the odour of sanctity , compare French mourir en odeur de sainteté (1672). For descriptions of the reputed fact, or references to it, see H. Engelgrave Cæleste Pantheon (1658) I. 110; Selecta Martyrum Acta (Gaume, Paris) IV. 111, 198–9; Fioretti di S. Francesco (1543) xlviii. f. 66^v; P. Pellisson Lettres Historiques (1729) I. 131; J. De La Barre J. B. Bossuet's Disc. sur l'Hist. Universelle (new ed., 1772) II. 270; Voltaire La Pucelle (1755) i. 12; Bede Hist. Eccl. iii. viii; St. Guthlac 166, 167; William of Malmesbury Gesta Reg. I. ii. §216 (translated in R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, M. Winterbottom (1998), 399); Malory Morte Darthur 1258; E. A. Freeman Norman Conquest (1869) III. xi. 32; also quots. 1749 at odoriferous adj. 1, odorous adj.1778 T. Hartley in W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley tr. E. Swedenborg Heaven & Hell 292 (note) This may serve to explain what..[is] related by authors of good credit, concerning certain persons of eminent piety, who are said to have died in the odour of sanctity from the fragrancy that issued from their bodies after death.

I. Senses relating to the sense of smell.

1. The property of a substance that is perceptible by the sense of smell; (in early use) spec. a sweet or pleasing scent; (now, frequently) an unpleasant smell.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun]

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun]

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rap1966

?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 76 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 147 (MED) Trie maces beþ þe flure, Þe rind canel of swet odur.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 312^v Whanne oonliche corrupt humour is in cause þanne is nouȝt gendred stynche but heuy odour..freisshe fisshe..smelleþ heuy while þer-Inne is kynde hete and stynkeþ whan kynde hete is aweye.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 3701 (MED) Þe odor o þi uestement It smelles als o piement.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 208 (MED) By the noosthurles we haue knowlech of odeurs and stynches.

a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 Fragrant, all full of fresche odour fynest of smell.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij ^v To se suche dysshes, & smell the swete odour And nothynge to tast, is vtter displeasour.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) ii. ii. 51 The effluvium or odor of Steel.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 42 All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from your breath their Odors.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 Fume with stinking Galbanum thy Stalls: With that rank Odour from thy dwelling Place To drive the Viper's brood.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 37 Rise Odours sweet from Incense uninflam'd?

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 317 The lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. ii. 18 A more nauseating odour I never inhaled.

1851 Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 3 78 Phenetol is a colourless, very mobile liquid, lighter than water; and having an agreeable, aromatic odour.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iv. 51 There is an odor of sweetbrier about, hovering in the warm, still air.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 159 He sprang from the bed, the reeking odour pouring down his throat, clogging and revolting his entrails.

1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 149 Flies fed in all the pans and an odor of meat burnt or burning hung like a promise of better times.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 163 Rooms that have a bedbug infestation are said typically to have a musty, sweet odour.

2. A substance that emits a sweet smell or scent, esp. incense, spice, ointment, etc.; a perfume. Also: †an odoriferous flower. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > [noun] > pleasant or fragrant

odoura1425

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume

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foo-foo1880

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. v. 8 Hadden ech of hem harpis, and goldun violis ful of odours [a1382 E.V. saueringis; L. odoramentorum].

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 163 Quhen..lusty May..Had maid the birdis to begyn thair houris Amang the tendir odouris reid and quhyt.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxj^v His lott was to bren odoures [R.V. incense].

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M4 They all perfumde with frankincense diuine, And precious odours fetcht from far away.

1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 227 They throw in (by heapes) all Sorts of Spices, and Sweet Odours.

1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον i. 61 Let gratefull Aromatick odours burne, Let pious incense smoake, for the returne.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 140 With Nectar she her Son anoints..Down from his Head the liquid Odours ran.

1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) A small Vessel us'd in the Burning of Pastils or other odours.

1788 W. Beckford Spanish Jrnl. 12 Jan. (1954) 313 Ahmed Vassif sent me..a magnificent present of wood of aloes, amber and odour of roses.

1832 R. Montgomery Messiah vi. 200 The Saviour's lip Blest the meek hands which ominously pour'd Balsamic odour to anoint His head.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 87 A royal virgin, in odours silkily nestled.

1985 J. Jordan Living Room 89 Alexis running back with oil and myrrh and frankincense and coal to burn these odors.

†3. The sense of smell. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > sense of smell

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osmatism1903

a1450 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) f. 156^v Men wiþoute mouþe, and þei..lyueþ onliche bi odoure [L. odore] and smell of noseþrelles.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 291 Turfes..whiche be more vile then woode..and more tedious to the odoure [L. odorem].

II. Extended uses.

a. figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign > slight

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. ii. 14 God..schewith by vs the odour of his knowynge.

a1425 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Laud) (1884) cxxxiv. 18 Þei can not see the riȝt way, and thei fele not the gode odor of crist.

c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 214 (MED) Teres of penaunce be wyne of angels, for in hem is odoure of lyfe, sauour of grace, taste of indulgence.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Qiii^v Let the swete odour of deuocion and prayer spyre out and ascende vp to thy lorde.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. ii. sig. I3^v I had thought, the odour, Sir, of your good name, Had beene more precious to you.

1664 K. Philips Poems xlv. 127 Religion all her odours sheds on you, Who by obeying vindicate her too.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1712 I. 12 The political principles in which he was educated, and of which he ever retained some odour.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. ii. 11 If they were not the roses, they lived near the roses, as it were, and had a good deal of the odour of genteel life.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxv. 279 No odour of religious intolerance attaches to it.

1908 E. F. Benson Climber 151 ‘Nine bars of orchestra’, said Lord Heron impressively, ‘and into those nine bars he has put all the odour of the East’.

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. i. 194 That eery odour of otherliness, of vagrancy and jugglery which surrounds Mr. Abramowitz.

2001 Observer 29 Apr. i. 24/2 To the Right, it offered the camphorous odour of Thatcher's mothballed credo of a property-owning democracy.

b. to be in (good, bad, etc.) odour: to be regarded favourably or unfavourably; to be held in the type of estimation specified; to be in or out of favour with.

ΚΠ

1689 P. Belon Court Secret i. 96 He would leave behind him here on Earth a Name and Fame that should endure for ever, that his Memory would ever be in good Odour to all good persons.

1835 C. Dickens Let. 16 Dec. (1965) I. 106 As the Tories are the principal party here, I am in no very good odour in the town.

1847 Illustr. London News 24 July 62/1 To day he was in better odour.

a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 588 He as by some instinct, can divine Who in such odour with the Bar may be.

1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxlii. 4 When a person is in ill odour it is quite wonderful how weak the memories of his former friends become.

1954 N. Mitford Madame de Pompadour xviii. 230 In 1760 St. Germain fell into bad odour with the police and Choiseul sent him packing.

1977 Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Jan. 33/1 The Daoud affair, which has brought France into such odour abroad including a call for the boycott of French goods in the United States.

1994 D. Halberstam October 1964 (1995) Introd. p. xvi The owners..sensing that the players were in bad odor with the fans, decided to go after them and crush their union.

5. odour of sanctity n. a state of saintliness or moral rectitude; reputed virtuousness. Now chiefly ironic and humorous.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > [noun]

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sacrality1958

c1684 Eve Revived 56 A certain Hermite..who Lived near Lyons in a great Odour of Sanctity.

1756 A. Butler Lives Saints II. 169 She [sc. St Bona] died in 673, leaving behind her a sweet odour of her sanctity and virtues to all France.

1798 M. G. Lewis Castle Spectre i. i. 3 The odour of my sanctity perfumes the whole kingdom.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iv. 67 My respected grandmother, Hilda of Middleham, who died in odour of sanctity, little short..of her glorious name-sake, the blessed Saint Hilda of Whitby.

1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iv, in All for Love 178 These blessed Fowls, at seven years end, In the odour of sanctity died.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iv. i. 118 There is an odour of iniquity, you must know, as well as an odour of sanctity.

1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 165/1 Now there were two ladies present, one a widow, whose husband had not died in the odor of sanctity, the other a married woman whose husband had gone to Ceylon.

1968 R. E. Duncan Bending the Bow 115 The image of the mannequin,..perfumed, seducing, without odor of Man or odor of sanctity.

1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) i. 9 Unfortunately, the odor of sanctity is frequently toxic to those too close to its source.

Compounds

C1.

† odour-current n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1876 S. Lanier Psalm of West in Poems 182 What wavering way the odor-current sets.

odour-reek n.

ΚΠ

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 187 The odorreek of all anonymous men.

† odour wind n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1851 tr. F. Freiligrath Spectre Caravan in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 408 Soon the welcome dawn..will melt away those phantom shapes forlorn, When again upon your brows you feel the odor winds of morn.

1880 T. C. Irwin Pictures & Songs 51 In soft summer islets where odour winds blow.

odour-breathing adj.

ΚΠ

a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 101 Then, when he sung Vlisses had So strange a gift from Acolus, Who odour-breathing Zephyrus In severall bottles did inclose.

1766 T. Hull Fairy Favour 7 By ev'ry odour-breathing bed, Where violets nod the purple head.

1893 G. MacDonald Manch. Poem in Poet. Wks. 428 In me the spring was throbbing; round me lay Resting fulfilled, the odour-breathing summer!

† odour-faded adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 109 It feeds the quick growth of..odour-faded blooms.

odour-free adj.

ΚΠ

1955 Jrnl. Appl. Physiol. 8 341/2 The odorant..introduced through an ultramicroburette was vaporized into the odor-free test room by an atomizing jet of odor-free air.

1998 Textile Horizons July 18/4 Clothes stay fresh and odour free for over 200 washes by virtue of its anti-microbial function.

odour-laden adj.

ΚΠ

1853 Househ. Words 31 Dec. 426/1 Sleep, rocked by the odour-laden night wind.

1994 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 5756/1 Turbulence causes the plume to break up into strands of odor-laden air (filaments) interspersed with pockets of clean air.

odour-proof adj.

ΚΠ

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Odorproof.

1950 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 63 433 The need for rigorous experimental controls for smell soon became apparent. A large odor-proof globe..was first thought of.

2001 Nursing (Electronic ed.) 1 May Changes should be scheduled frequently enough to maintain a secure, odorproof seal at all times.

C2.

odour-blindness n. an inability to discriminate between different smells or ranges of smells.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disordered taste, smell, or touch > [noun] > smell

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parosmis1817

anosphresy1853

parosmia1884

odour-blindness1931

1931 Eugenical News July 106/1 Some were thus ‘blind’ to fragrance in the red flowers though perceiving fragrance in the pink while others were just reversed in their odor ‘blindness’.

1973 Nature 23 Mar. 271/2 Three types of odour-blindness or specific anosmia have been studied.

Derivatives

ˈodourful adj. odorous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective]

strongOE

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1889 Chicago Advance 30 May More lasting, precious, odorful, than all The flowers of polar or of tropic seas.

1990 N. Williams Wimbledon Poisoner x. 71 Unlike thallium, Henry felt, they [sc. edenwort and okra] were probably odourful and tasteful in the extreme.

† odour-like adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §904 Under this head, you may place all Imbibitions of Aire, where the substance is materiall, Odour-like.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	odour
释义	odourodorn. Brit. /ˈəʊdə/, U.S. /ˈoʊdər/ Forms: Middle English hodure, Middle English odir, Middle English odur, Middle English odure, Middle English odyr, Middle English order (transmission error), Middle English ordure (transmission error), Middle English oudour, Middle English ouþer (transmission error), Middle English–1500s odeur, Middle English–1500s odoure, Middle English–1500s odowr, Middle English–1500s odowre, Middle English– odor (now U.S.), Middle English– odour, 1500s oder; Scottish pre-1700 odere, pre-1700 odire, pre-1700 odor, pre-1700 odore, pre-1700 odoure, pre-1700 odyre, pre-1700 1700s– odour. N.E.D. (1902) records also forms Middle English odere, Middle English odire. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French odur; Latin odōr-, odor. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French odur, odor, odour (all 12th cent.), Old French, Middle French oudeur (13th cent.), Middle French odeur (1380; French odeur ) smell, scent, impression which a person makes upon others, and its etymon classical Latin odōr-, odor smell, pleasant scent, unpleasant smell, substance that emits a sweet smell or scent, perfume, spice, in post-classical Latin also sense of smell (c1230–50 in the passage translated in quot. a1450 at sense 3) < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ὀδ- to smell (see odmyl n.), Lithuanian uosti to smell, uoslė odour, Armenian hot odour, smell.Forms in -our are commoner than those in -or in Middle English, and remain so until at least the end of the 18th cent. The form in -our is now usual in British English, while that in -or is usual in the United States: see further -or suffix. Technical derivative formations corresponding semantically to odour n. have classical Latin odōr- , odor as the first element. In phrases at sense 4b after Middle French, French en mauvaise odeur (1585), en bonne odeur (Cotgrave 1611). In odour of sanctity (see sense 5) after French odeur de sainteté (second half of the 17th cent.), a sweet or balsamic odour supposed to have been emitted by the bodies of saints at or after death, and regarded as attesting their saintship; compare post-classical Latin odor sanctitatis (8th cent. or earlier), odor suavitatis (6th cent.); with to die in the odour of sanctity , compare French mourir en odeur de sainteté (1672). For descriptions of the reputed fact, or references to it, see H. Engelgrave Cæleste Pantheon (1658) I. 110; Selecta Martyrum Acta (Gaume, Paris) IV. 111, 198–9; Fioretti di S. Francesco (1543) xlviii. f. 66^v; P. Pellisson Lettres Historiques (1729) I. 131; J. De La Barre J. B. Bossuet's Disc. sur l'Hist. Universelle (new ed., 1772) II. 270; Voltaire La Pucelle (1755) i. 12; Bede Hist. Eccl. iii. viii; St. Guthlac 166, 167; William of Malmesbury Gesta Reg. I. ii. §216 (translated in R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, M. Winterbottom (1998), 399); Malory Morte Darthur 1258; E. A. Freeman Norman Conquest (1869) III. xi. 32; also quots. 1749 at odoriferous adj. 1, odorous adj.1778 T. Hartley in W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley tr. E. Swedenborg Heaven & Hell 292 (note) This may serve to explain what..[is] related by authors of good credit, concerning certain persons of eminent piety, who are said to have died in the odour of sanctity from the fragrancy that issued from their bodies after death. I. Senses relating to the sense of smell. 1. The property of a substance that is perceptible by the sense of smell; (in early use) spec. a sweet or pleasing scent; (now, frequently) an unpleasant smell. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] smacka1000 breathOE smella1175 irea1300 weffea1300 thefa1325 relesec1330 odour?c1335 incensea1340 flair1340 savoura1350 smellingc1386 flavourc1400 fumec1400 reflairc1400 air?a1439 scent?1473 taste?c1475 verdure1520 senteur1601 waft1611 effluvium1656 fluor1671 burning scent1681 aura1732 fumet1735 snuff1763 olfacient1822 odouret1825 waff1827 gush1841 sniff1844 tang1858 nose1894 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun] nameeOE talec1175 fame?c1225 lose1297 creancec1330 stevenc1374 opinionc1384 credencec1390 recorda1393 renowna1400 reputationc1400 reportc1425 regardc1440 esteema1450 noisea1470 reapport1514 estimation1530 savour1535 existimationa1538 countenancea1568 credit1576 standing1579 stair1590 perfumec1595 estimate1597 pass1601 reportage1612 vibration1666 suffrage1667 rep1677 face1834 odour1835 rap1966 ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 76 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 147 (MED) Trie maces beþ þe flure, Þe rind canel of swet odur. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 312^v Whanne oonliche corrupt humour is in cause þanne is nouȝt gendred stynche but heuy odour..freisshe fisshe..smelleþ heuy while þer-Inne is kynde hete and stynkeþ whan kynde hete is aweye. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 3701 (MED) Þe odor o þi uestement It smelles als o piement. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 208 (MED) By the noosthurles we haue knowlech of odeurs and stynches. a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 Fragrant, all full of fresche odour fynest of smell. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij ^v To se suche dysshes, & smell the swete odour And nothynge to tast, is vtter displeasour. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) ii. ii. 51 The effluvium or odor of Steel. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 42 All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from your breath their Odors. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 Fume with stinking Galbanum thy Stalls: With that rank Odour from thy dwelling Place To drive the Viper's brood. View more context for this quotation 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 37 Rise Odours sweet from Incense uninflam'd? 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 317 The lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. ii. 18 A more nauseating odour I never inhaled. 1851 Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 3 78 Phenetol is a colourless, very mobile liquid, lighter than water; and having an agreeable, aromatic odour. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iv. 51 There is an odor of sweetbrier about, hovering in the warm, still air. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 159 He sprang from the bed, the reeking odour pouring down his throat, clogging and revolting his entrails. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 149 Flies fed in all the pans and an odor of meat burnt or burning hung like a promise of better times. 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 163 Rooms that have a bedbug infestation are said typically to have a musty, sweet odour. 2. A substance that emits a sweet smell or scent, esp. incense, spice, ointment, etc.; a perfume. Also: †an odoriferous flower. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] > pleasant or fragrant odoura1425 the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume pimentc1300 odoramentc1384 savouringc1384 odoura1425 aromatica1513 smella1533 fume1541 perfume1542 sweet-water?1543 scent1596 pomander1600 sweets1603 bisse1608 sweet-ball1617 plash1649 suffition1656 essence1661 odoratea1682 otto1822 aroma1830 nosegay1855 foo-foo1880 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. v. 8 Hadden ech of hem harpis, and goldun violis ful of odours [a1382 E.V. saueringis; L. odoramentorum]. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 163 Quhen..lusty May..Had maid the birdis to begyn thair houris Amang the tendir odouris reid and quhyt. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxj^v His lott was to bren odoures [R.V. incense]. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M4 They all perfumde with frankincense diuine, And precious odours fetcht from far away. 1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 227 They throw in (by heapes) all Sorts of Spices, and Sweet Odours. 1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον i. 61 Let gratefull Aromatick odours burne, Let pious incense smoake, for the returne. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 140 With Nectar she her Son anoints..Down from his Head the liquid Odours ran. View more context for this quotation 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) A small Vessel us'd in the Burning of Pastils or other odours. 1788 W. Beckford Spanish Jrnl. 12 Jan. (1954) 313 Ahmed Vassif sent me..a magnificent present of wood of aloes, amber and odour of roses. 1832 R. Montgomery Messiah vi. 200 The Saviour's lip Blest the meek hands which ominously pour'd Balsamic odour to anoint His head. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 87 A royal virgin, in odours silkily nestled. 1985 J. Jordan Living Room 89 Alexis running back with oil and myrrh and frankincense and coal to burn these odors. †3. The sense of smell. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > sense of smell smellingc1175 smellc1200 nosea1375 odoura1450 scent1488 odorate1614 parosmis1817 parosmia1884 osmatism1903 a1450 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) f. 156^v Men wiþoute mouþe, and þei..lyueþ onliche bi odoure [L. odore] and smell of noseþrelles. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 291 Turfes..whiche be more vile then woode..and more tedious to the odoure [L. odorem]. II. Extended uses. 4. a. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign > slight sparklec1380 odourc1384 smell?a1505 savour?1531 casta1556 obumbrationa1631 smite1640 subindication1655 smattering1764 whiff1872 breath1873 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. ii. 14 God..schewith by vs the odour of his knowynge. a1425 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Laud) (1884) cxxxiv. 18 Þei can not see the riȝt way, and thei fele not the gode odor of crist. c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 214 (MED) Teres of penaunce be wyne of angels, for in hem is odoure of lyfe, sauour of grace, taste of indulgence. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Qiii^v Let the swete odour of deuocion and prayer spyre out and ascende vp to thy lorde. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. ii. sig. I3^v I had thought, the odour, Sir, of your good name, Had beene more precious to you. View more context for this quotation 1664 K. Philips Poems xlv. 127 Religion all her odours sheds on you, Who by obeying vindicate her too. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1712 I. 12 The political principles in which he was educated, and of which he ever retained some odour. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. ii. 11 If they were not the roses, they lived near the roses, as it were, and had a good deal of the odour of genteel life. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxv. 279 No odour of religious intolerance attaches to it. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 151 ‘Nine bars of orchestra’, said Lord Heron impressively, ‘and into those nine bars he has put all the odour of the East’. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. i. 194 That eery odour of otherliness, of vagrancy and jugglery which surrounds Mr. Abramowitz. 2001 Observer 29 Apr. i. 24/2 To the Right, it offered the camphorous odour of Thatcher's mothballed credo of a property-owning democracy. b. to be in (good, bad, etc.) odour: to be regarded favourably or unfavourably; to be held in the type of estimation specified; to be in or out of favour with. ΚΠ 1689 P. Belon Court Secret i. 96 He would leave behind him here on Earth a Name and Fame that should endure for ever, that his Memory would ever be in good Odour to all good persons. 1835 C. Dickens Let. 16 Dec. (1965) I. 106 As the Tories are the principal party here, I am in no very good odour in the town. 1847 Illustr. London News 24 July 62/1 To day he was in better odour. a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 588 He as by some instinct, can divine Who in such odour with the Bar may be. 1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxlii. 4 When a person is in ill odour it is quite wonderful how weak the memories of his former friends become. 1954 N. Mitford Madame de Pompadour xviii. 230 In 1760 St. Germain fell into bad odour with the police and Choiseul sent him packing. 1977 Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Jan. 33/1 The Daoud affair, which has brought France into such odour abroad including a call for the boycott of French goods in the United States. 1994 D. Halberstam October 1964 (1995) Introd. p. xvi The owners..sensing that the players were in bad odor with the fans, decided to go after them and crush their union. 5. odour of sanctity n. a state of saintliness or moral rectitude; reputed virtuousness. Now chiefly ironic and humorous. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > [noun] halidom971 holiness971 blessedheada1300 holiheada1300 holite14.. sanctitudea1525 sanctimony1583 sanctity1611 spiritualty1618 sacrosanctity1650 odour of sanctityc1684 sacredness1686 hallowedness1828 sacrosanctness1876 sanctifiableness1894 sacrality1958 c1684 Eve Revived 56 A certain Hermite..who Lived near Lyons in a great Odour of Sanctity. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints II. 169 She [sc. St Bona] died in 673, leaving behind her a sweet odour of her sanctity and virtues to all France. 1798 M. G. Lewis Castle Spectre i. i. 3 The odour of my sanctity perfumes the whole kingdom. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iv. 67 My respected grandmother, Hilda of Middleham, who died in odour of sanctity, little short..of her glorious name-sake, the blessed Saint Hilda of Whitby. 1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iv, in All for Love 178 These blessed Fowls, at seven years end, In the odour of sanctity died. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iv. i. 118 There is an odour of iniquity, you must know, as well as an odour of sanctity. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 165/1 Now there were two ladies present, one a widow, whose husband had not died in the odor of sanctity, the other a married woman whose husband had gone to Ceylon. 1968 R. E. Duncan Bending the Bow 115 The image of the mannequin,..perfumed, seducing, without odor of Man or odor of sanctity. 1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) i. 9 Unfortunately, the odor of sanctity is frequently toxic to those too close to its source. Compounds C1. a. † odour-current n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1876 S. Lanier Psalm of West in Poems 182 What wavering way the odor-current sets. odour-reek n. ΚΠ 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 187 The odorreek of all anonymous men. † odour wind n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1851 tr. F. Freiligrath Spectre Caravan in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 408 Soon the welcome dawn..will melt away those phantom shapes forlorn, When again upon your brows you feel the odor winds of morn. 1880 T. C. Irwin Pictures & Songs 51 In soft summer islets where odour winds blow. b. odour-breathing adj. ΚΠ a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 101 Then, when he sung Vlisses had So strange a gift from Acolus, Who odour-breathing Zephyrus In severall bottles did inclose. 1766 T. Hull Fairy Favour 7 By ev'ry odour-breathing bed, Where violets nod the purple head. 1893 G. MacDonald Manch. Poem in Poet. Wks. 428 In me the spring was throbbing; round me lay Resting fulfilled, the odour-breathing summer! † odour-faded adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 109 It feeds the quick growth of..odour-faded blooms. odour-free adj. ΚΠ 1955 Jrnl. Appl. Physiol. 8 341/2 The odorant..introduced through an ultramicroburette was vaporized into the odor-free test room by an atomizing jet of odor-free air. 1998 Textile Horizons July 18/4 Clothes stay fresh and odour free for over 200 washes by virtue of its anti-microbial function. odour-laden adj. ΚΠ 1853 Househ. Words 31 Dec. 426/1 Sleep, rocked by the odour-laden night wind. 1994 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 5756/1 Turbulence causes the plume to break up into strands of odor-laden air (filaments) interspersed with pockets of clean air. odour-proof adj. ΚΠ 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Odorproof. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 63 433 The need for rigorous experimental controls for smell soon became apparent. A large odor-proof globe..was first thought of. 2001 Nursing (Electronic ed.) 1 May Changes should be scheduled frequently enough to maintain a secure, odorproof seal at all times. C2. odour-blindness n. an inability to discriminate between different smells or ranges of smells. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disordered taste, smell, or touch > [noun] > smell anosmia1811 parosmis1817 anosphresy1853 parosmia1884 odour-blindness1931 1931 Eugenical News July 106/1 Some were thus ‘blind’ to fragrance in the red flowers though perceiving fragrance in the pink while others were just reversed in their odor ‘blindness’. 1973 Nature 23 Mar. 271/2 Three types of odour-blindness or specific anosmia have been studied. Derivatives ˈodourful adj. odorous. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective] strongOE savouringc1384 breatheda1398 flairinga1400 smellinga1400 odorifere?a1425 odorous?a1425 smellablec1449 odoranta1465 odoriferousc1487 odiferousa1500 odoureda1500 odiferant1509 redolent?a1513 reflairing1523 odoriferantc1550 scenting1577 odorable1589 breathful1593 fat1598 olent1607 smelled1617 odorific1685 tainted1704 odourful1889 osmic1912 1889 Chicago Advance 30 May More lasting, precious, odorful, than all The flowers of polar or of tropic seas. 1990 N. Williams Wimbledon Poisoner x. 71 Unlike thallium, Henry felt, they [sc. edenwort and okra] were probably odourful and tasteful in the extreme. † odour-like adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §904 Under this head, you may place all Imbibitions of Aire, where the substance is materiall, Odour-like. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1335
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