单词 | pestilentious |
释义 | pestilentiousadj. 1. Carrying, producing, or tending to produce pestilence; of the nature of or relating to pestilence; destructive to life or health; deadly. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [adjective] pestilentialc1425 pestilentiousc1440 plaguey1574 plagueful1594 pestful1608 c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 91 (MED) And þan he saw this pestellencius beste, þe Basilisc, lygg slepande in myddes of þe passage. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. iii. 249 Þe ȝere [was] richt pestilentius baith to burgh & land, to na less mortalite of man þan beist. 1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. i. sig. B1v The disease..was a pestilentious byle. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 256 This contagious and pestilentious Lake [sc. the Dead Sea]. 1694 London Gaz. No. 2948/2 The Pestilentious Distemper which had for a long while reigned in that Island. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry i. iv The owner of a pestilentious, though very fertile and fat land. 1857 R. Rapler Hermit of Aleova ii. 70 I did not wish to..cause you to linger in the pestilentious atmosphere that surrounded Oleva. 1996 C. Hoehler-Fatton Women of Fire & Spirit 215 The site..was chosen in hopes that its climate would prove healthier for European missionaries than the ‘pestilentious’ port of Kisumu. 2. Morally or socially harmful; pernicious; abhorrent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective] litherc893 scathefulc900 balefulOE orneOE teenfulOE evilc1175 venomousc1290 scathela1300 prejudiciala1325 fell?c1335 harmfula1340 grievous1340 ill1340 wicked1340 noisomea1382 venomed1382 noyfulc1384 damageousc1386 mischievousc1390 unwholesomea1400 undisposingc1400 damnablec1420 prejudiciable1429 contagiousc1440 damagefulc1449 pestiferous1458 damageable1474 pestilent?a1475 nuisable1483 nocible1490 nuisible1490 nuisant1494 noxiousa1500 nocent?c1500 pestilential1531 tortious1532 pestilentious1533 nocive1538 offensivea1548 vitiating1547 dangerous1548 offending1552 dispendious1557 injurious1559 offensible1575 offensant1578 baneful1579 incommodious1579 prejudicious1579 prejudical1595 inimicous1598 damnifiable1604 taking1608 obnoxious1612 nocivousc1616 mischieving1621 nocuous1627 nocumentous1644 disserviceable1645 inimical1645 detrimentous1648 injuring1651 detrimental1656 inimicitial1656 nocumental1657 incommodous1677 fatal1681 inimic1696 nociferous1706 damnific1727 inimicable1805 violational1821 insalutary1836 detrimentary1841 wronging1845 unsalvatory1850 damaging1856 damnous1870 wack1986 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > harmful or pernicious baleOE balefulc1175 venomousc1290 contagiousc1440 pestiferous1458 pestilent?a1475 perniciousc1475 pestilential1531 pestilentious1533 plaguey1574 deleterious1630 unedifying1641 perniciable1656 inedifying1659 unimproving1747 insalutary1836 unsalvatory1850 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) 101 Tarquinius Sixtus..cum armit on me this last nicht, and has reft fra me..all my joy and solace to his pestilencius plesoure. 1546 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 63 The pestilencious hereseis of Luther. ?1617 W. Alexander Suppl. Sidney's Arcadia iii. sig. ¶3v Such a pestilentious influence poysoned the time of my natiuitie. 1680 ‘Philalethes’ tr. G. Buchanan De Jure Regni apud Scotos 87 Nothing..is given us of God..more pestilentious than a wicked King. 1751 H. Brooke Last Speech John Good 48 In the Days of Old there were Giants.., People of Magnitude,..of Prodigious Deeds, and of Pestilentious Atchievements. 1939 Times 18 Mar. 13/6 It is difficult to understand the toleration by authority of this pestilentious growth [sc. funfairs]. Derivatives pestiˈlentiousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [noun] infirmity1481 unwholesomenessa1513 contagiousness1530 evilness1563 malignity1585 unhealthfulness1598 untemperaturea1604 unhealthsomeness1613 healthlessness1655 unsoundness1660 insalubrity1663 unhealthiness1666 unsalubrity1694 malignancy1732 pestilentiousness1748 mal-influence1792 insanitariness1881 insanitation1884 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 25 The Pestilentiousness of the Disease. 2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 26 July (Arts section) 14 The children of Third Street Junior..win us over by the charm of their pre-teen pestilentiousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1440 |
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