abnoxiousadj.

1611 G. H. tr. Anti-Coton To Rdr. L 3^v He seemes to me to range unruly Princes (though they pretend neuer so iust a title to their Crownes) in the Catalogue of common murtherers and theeues, and to make them as abnoxious to publike censure.

1639 J. S. Clidamas 140 Wee may with eternity of joy, renew those loves never to have ending there, which here are abnoxious to so many casualties.

1654 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions (ed. 3) iv. iii. 321 Of ill report, and abnoxious to various censures.

1680 H. Care Hist. Popish Plot iv. 52 That the States were more abnoxious than the Turk, and perpetually injured His Majesties loving Subjects in the East-Indies.

1770 C. Varlo New Syst. Husbandry I. xii. 178 Most grubs or worms are the parents of flies, therefore what is poisonous or abnoxious to one, must be also offensive to the other.

1899 Daily Advocate (Victoria, Texas) 5 Dec. 1/2 These combinations by controlling commodities necessary to the general community, and by suppressing competition, enhance prices to general consumer, and are abnoxious to law and public welfare.

1682 J. Phillips Conf. Observator & Heraclitus 19 All which rendered them so abnoxious all over the world.

1707 G. Miège Present State Great Brit. I. xxviii. 327 His unbounded Favour to the Duke of Buckingham, an abnoxious Man to the State, increased the Disgust of the People.

1827 Times 12 Feb. 2/2 The journals of Thursday are nearly altogether filled with the report of the Commission on the project of law on the press..and those of Friday with discussions on that abnoxious measure.

1850 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 16 478/2 Growing plants it will be found, although nurtured by the products of putrefaction, decomposing, purifying, and rendering useful the most abnoxious of such matters, yet never assimilates them in such a form as to be either obnoxious or injurious to those, for whose use they were created.

1934 Jrnl. Relig. 14 421 That Professor Macintosh should join with Professor Otto in trying to preserve the integrity of religious terminology indicates that too much redefinition is as abnoxious to a genuine theist as to a sincere atheist.

1967 Times 24 June 6/6 It was abnoxious and revolting beyond description to contemplate an adult of sound mind indulging in any of these [homosexual] practices with someone who was of unsound mind.

1999 Independent on Sunday 7 Mar. (Real Life section) 9/4 Unless it endangers the child..they [sc. parents] simply don't register any abnoxious activity their child indulges in.