repellentadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈpɛlənt/,

/rᵻˈpɛln̩t/, U.S.

/rəˈpɛlənt/,

/riˈpɛlənt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repellent-, repellens, repellēns, repellere.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin repellent-, repellens (in medical use) repercussive (1607 in the passage translated in quot. 1642 at sense A. 1, or earlier), use as adjective of classical Latin repellent-, repellēns, present participle of repellere repel v. With use as noun in medical sense compare post-classical Latin repellentia , plural (from 1565 or earlier in British sources; compare quot. 1565 at sense B. 1). Compare Anglo-Norman repelant repulsive (mid 13th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation). Compare earlier repulsive adj. and repulsive n. Compare also repellant adj., repellant n., repeller n.

A. adj.

†1. Medicine. = repercussive adj. 1. Cf. repel v. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off

percussivea1398

repercussivea1398

repulsive?a1425

back-driving1562

repellent1575

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depulsivec1615

repercutient1676

repellant1730

derivative1854

derivant1876

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. Ev Let vs defende the nighe partes with medicines partlye repellent, and partly discutient.

1642 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. v. 19 It is necessary to use repellent Medicines [L. repellentibus medicamentis], to wit, defensives, and clouts wet in Vinegar.

1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (1722) 381/2 All those means are said to be repellent, which check the Growth of the Tumour.

1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. vi. 80 Every thing wet, whether warm, or cold, emollient, repellent, or astringent.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 39 The leaves [of Sterculia fœtida] are considered repellent and aperient.

1856 Lancet 7 June 623/1 Very little has been added by subsequent writers on the abortive, discutient, or repellent method of treating this annoying and perplexing affection.

a. Physics. Having the power of repelling other objects; characterized by physical repulsion; = repulsive adj. 4. Cf. repellant adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > repelling

repulsing1490

repulsive?1574

expulsive1618

propulsive1648

repellent1654

repelling1710

repulsory1727

repellant1780

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xv. 344 Why therefore should we not conceive, that..Nature..useth certain small Goads, Poles, Levers, or the like protruding Instruments, continued from the Repellent to the Repulsed bodie?

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §237 Why should the most repellent particles be the most attractive upon contact?

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 19 The repellent quality of external bodies holds their internal parts together in a stronger cohesion.

1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 136 The different manner..in which their parts become capable of communicating attractive or repellent powers to other matter.

1903 N. Hawkins Progressive Machinist 42 At last the repellent force predominates and the liquid passes off in vapor.

1937 H. H. Donald in A. G. Keller Stud. Sci. of Society 188 The forces impelling movement may be attractive or repellent.

2006 T. K. Sarkar et al. Hist. Wireless iii. 170 There exists a force between two parallel current conductors, attractive for currents in the same direction and repellent for currents in opposite directions.

b. Resistant to the absorption or passage of moisture, dirt, oil, etc.Now frequently with preceding word specifying the thing being repelled.water-repellent: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > water-resistant

repellent1789

repellant1811

water-repellant1825

water-repellent1842

water-resistant1883

hydrophobe1915

hydrophobic1938

aquaphobic1944

1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. xvi. 80 In a wet season..the redundant water falls down..where, meeting with a repellent subsoil, it is held in suspense.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. 44 A manner of draining where the surface soil and base are repellent.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 47 There are some men..whose clothes are repellent of dust and mud.

1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 360/2 If the film repel the solution, just run the finger..over the repellent portion.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 34/2 (advt.) Johnson's Liquid Wax..imparts a beautiful, dry, dirt-repellent surface [to linoleum] which washes off like glass.

1992 In-fisherman Feb. 158/1 Dupont Zepel—a top-quality rain and stain repellent material.

†3. That repels or wards off a harmful influence, attack, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > [adjective] > repelling attack

repellent1742

1742 C. Fleming Plea for Infants 39 This implies indeed an imputation of great virtue and efficacy to the water, and may do well enough as the antagonistical or repellent charm, to that of imputed sin.

1823 R. C. Dallas Amabel & Other Poems 104 Onward to the bound he draws Where stretch the Crab's repellent claws.

1888 W. Pater Gaston de Latour ii, in Macmillan's Mag. 58 222/2 He saw the beautiful city..as if sheathed austerely in repellent armour.

a. Causing disgust or aversion; repulsive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective]

loatha700

eileOE

andsetec1000

wlatfulc1230

aloathedc1275

wlatsomea1300

unhonest13..

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hideousc1330

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odiblec1425

ugsomec1425

wretchedc1430

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noisomea1450

abhominal1477

detestable1477

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loathing?a1513

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irksome1513

hateworthy1548

abhorful1565

ugged1570

detestine1575

ulcerous1577

opposite1578

scandalous1592

offensive1594

obscene1597

ulcered1602

dirtya1616

abhorrent1628

toady1628

envious1630

repugnant1633

nauseating1645

nauseous1646

obnoxious1646

detestful1654

reluctant1663

horrid1666

abnoxious1682

devilish1692

invidious1710

repellent1776

repellant1780

sickening1789

toadish1822

carrion1826

ugging1839

cussed1853

repugnant1879

jerky1944

vomitous1952

barfy1957

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable > specifically of manners, looks, etc.

moy1487

squeamish1577

reserved1605

repellent1776

repellant1780

1776 W. Cockin Occas. Attempts in Verse 68 Why here, the parties meet in soft embrace, And there, repellent furies shake the place.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. xii. 460 Sherlock..is..somewhat repellent in his language.

1865 H. C. Adams White Brunswickers x. 162 Tyrrell's pride frequently rendered him cold and repellent to those who, as he fancied, wished to patronise him.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxiii. 96 He overthrew..the repellent demand that the Gentiles should be circumcised.

1916 Times 6 Nov. 11/4 The world has become a foul rubbish-heap and the face of nature a repellent nightmare.

1956 N. Coward Diary 27 June (2000) 325 We drive back, pissed and exhausted, to eat repellent food at the hotel and fall into bed.

2006 R. Dawkins God Delusion 253 I have described atonement, the central doctrine of Christianity, as vicious, sado-masochistic and repellent.

b. Of a substance: causing certain insects or other animals not to settle or approach.

ΚΠ

1850 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 15 Apr. 2/1 The odor, or aroma, diffused by this plant is also known to be highly repellent to many kinds of aligerous insects.

1884 Independent (N.Y.) 31 July 7/2 Glover suggested the use of oil and tar gutters..against the canker worm and codling moth... The top of each frame to be..painted with some adhesive or repellent substance.

1920 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1918 29 66 Some means of protecting the nose of every exposed animal would be a simple matter in effecting the exclusion of gnats... He proposed..the application of repellent substances.

1979 ‘D. Kyle’ Green River High x. 131 We were smothered in repellent cream, but that didn't stop them [sc. insects].

1990 New Scientist 1 Dec. 51 (caption) Ingenious devices to proof buildings against pigeons include repellent gel that makes landing birds feel giddy.

c. Biology. Of an animal: not susceptible to infection by a parasite. rare.

ΚΠ

1904 E. R. Lankester in Q. Rev. July 127 A more precise nomenclature would describe the attacked organism in the first case as ‘repellent’, for it repels the parasite altogether.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 481/1 Other animals..may be quite ‘repellent’ to this parasite.

1918 E. B. Babcock & R. E. Clausen Genetics in Relation to Agric. xxxiii. 528 It would be possible..for individuals to enjoy freedom from the attacks of either of these two diseases if they happened to be resistant or repellent to the attacks of the particular mosquitos which carry the disease.

B. n.

†1. Medicine. = repercussive n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine repelling or drawing off

repercussivea1398

repulsive?c1425

repercutive?1541

repulser1611

repeller1634

repercusser1634

repellent1661

repriment1684

repellant1689

repercutient1719

1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 94 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Repercussiua medicamina, called also Repellentia, are after Galen thinges sharp, tarte, and adstringent.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ix. 222 Those [medicines], which are called repellentia and regerentia repulsiues, and restrictiues.]

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 431 Fractures..are cured by repellents hindering inflammation.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 170 Repellents in the Gout are sometimes most exceeding dangerous.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Jardon It should be first treated with coolers and repellents, such as hot vinegar, verjuice, &c.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 214 The bark of the root and the..leaves..are considered by the native Indian doctors as powerful repellents.

1893 R. J. Dunglison Dunglison's Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 21) 956/2 Repercussion, disappearance of a tumor or cutaneous eruption in consequence of the action of a repellent.

†2. A rejection. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > a denial or refusal

nayc1390

negation?a1425

non1551

negativec1571

counterbuff1579

say-nay1657

repellent1777

repellence1817

raspberry1919

1777 S. Johnson Let. 20 Sept. (1992) III. 71 Did he not hold out against forty such repellents from Mrs. P——?

†a. A person who or thing which repels something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > that which > repelling force or influence

repulsory1611

repulsive1667

repellant1783

repellent1788

1788 N. B. Harrison Travellers iii. ii. 59 Now for a few attractives, to engage this repellent of love—'Gad tho' she is as unpromising as a Lapland winter, I'll whisper in her ear a tender tale.

1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 245 All the impediments that act as repellents to your passion.

1855 S. Whiting Heliondé vii. 323 The Princess was no indignant repellent of my earnest praises.

b. Chiefly with modifying word. A substance applied to a fabric or surface in order to make it resistant to moisture, dirt, oil, etc. Cf. sense A. 2b.water-repellent: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > quality of being water-resistant > substance

repellant1805

water-repellant1815

water-repellent1840

repellent1843

hydrofuge1886

hydrophobe1924

1843 Times 20 Mar. 11/3 (advt.) For outside coats—Payne's Camlomere is the only real repellent to rain that will retain its impervious quality to the last.

1852 J. Arrowsmith Paper-hanger's Compan. 41 The experiment of compounding it [sc. iron] with drying paint as a repellent of damp.

1876 J. W. Wallace Cases Supreme Court U.S. 23 536 In coating..paper shirt-collars with a thin varnish of ‘bleached shellac’, which..being a repellent of water, prevents perspiration or other moisture from entering the collar.

1883 C. E. Calen Let. 2 Apr. in Ann. Rep. Operations U.S. Life-saving Service (1885) 447 It is made of granulated cork prepared and coated with a ‘water repellent’.

1891 Electr. Engineer 25 Sept. 310/1 Mouldings..must have at least two coatings of water-proof paint or be impregnated with a moisture repellent.

1964 Los Angeles Times 24 May u 3/4 These fabrics are waterproofed and resist sunlight very well. In some cases, they also boast a stain repellent.

1975 Environmental Health Perspectives 11 41 Other types of chemical treatments which are often applied to fabrics..include..water and/or oil repellents.

2004 Design Week (Nexis) 16 Dec. 9 The bath..is filled with white stones and impregnated with a dirt-repellent.

c. A substance that causes certain insects or other animals not to settle or approach.Frequently as the second element in compounds, preceded by the name of the animal repelled.insect, mosquito, moth repellent: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling pests

repellant1819

screen1822

repellent1861

bug chaser1917

1861 New Eng. Farmer 13 255/2 A pan of smoking cobs, the best preventive of taint as well as repellent of flies, bugs, and other nauseous insects.

1897 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1896 623 Tar.—This substance is commonly used as a repellent by dissolving in water and sprinkling the plants with the solution.

1923 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 16 222 A very effective repellent for practical use is a mixture of one part furfural to four parts pine tar oil.

1968 C. Helmericks Down Wild River North i. xv. 234 Covering myself..with canvas against the angry insects blown back from the horses' backs, and bathing my hooded face with repellent.

1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn viii. 144 This left the insects free to concentrate on me and the repellent I was using hadn't matured with age.

2004 M. K. Andrews Hissy Fit xxvii. 158 My face, where I'd missed applying the bug repellent, stung from numerous mosquito bites.

Derivatives

reˈpellently adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adverb]

loathlya1000

loathsomelya1400

hatefullyc1425

heinouslyc1440

abominably1447

ugsomelyc1450

odiouslya1500

detestably1531

abominationly1592

obscenely1598

repellingly1811

repellently1812

nauseatingly1815

obnoxiously1828

sickeningly1839

rebarbatively1934

the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adverb] > disgustingly > repellently

repellingly1811

repellently1812

forbiddingly1848

off-puttingly1961

1812 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. 32 Suppl. 329 The fluid accumulated in this place then will act repellently on the neighbouring air.

1913 J. B. Ellis Lahoma vii. 73 She looked at him repellently through her streaming tears.

2008 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. 4 The local scenes, revolving around a small, embattled tribe of mammoth hunters, suggest a repellently cold environment.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	repellent
释义	repellentadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈpɛlənt/, /rᵻˈpɛln̩t/, U.S. /rəˈpɛlənt/, /riˈpɛlənt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repellent-, repellens, repellēns, repellere. Etymology: < post-classical Latin repellent-, repellens (in medical use) repercussive (1607 in the passage translated in quot. 1642 at sense A. 1, or earlier), use as adjective of classical Latin repellent-, repellēns, present participle of repellere repel v. With use as noun in medical sense compare post-classical Latin repellentia , plural (from 1565 or earlier in British sources; compare quot. 1565 at sense B. 1). Compare Anglo-Norman repelant repulsive (mid 13th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation). Compare earlier repulsive adj. and repulsive n. Compare also repellant adj., repellant n., repeller n. A. adj. †1. Medicine. = repercussive adj. 1. Cf. repel v. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off percussivea1398 repercussivea1398 repulsive?a1425 back-driving1562 repellent1575 revelling1592 depulsivec1615 repercutient1676 repellant1730 derivative1854 derivant1876 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. Ev Let vs defende the nighe partes with medicines partlye repellent, and partly discutient. 1642 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. v. 19 It is necessary to use repellent Medicines [L. repellentibus medicamentis], to wit, defensives, and clouts wet in Vinegar. 1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (1722) 381/2 All those means are said to be repellent, which check the Growth of the Tumour. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. vi. 80 Every thing wet, whether warm, or cold, emollient, repellent, or astringent. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 39 The leaves [of Sterculia fœtida] are considered repellent and aperient. 1856 Lancet 7 June 623/1 Very little has been added by subsequent writers on the abortive, discutient, or repellent method of treating this annoying and perplexing affection. 2. a. Physics. Having the power of repelling other objects; characterized by physical repulsion; = repulsive adj. 4. Cf. repellant adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > repelling repulsing1490 repulsive?1574 expulsive1618 propulsive1648 repellent1654 repelling1710 repulsory1727 repellant1780 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xv. 344 Why therefore should we not conceive, that..Nature..useth certain small Goads, Poles, Levers, or the like protruding Instruments, continued from the Repellent to the Repulsed bodie? 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §237 Why should the most repellent particles be the most attractive upon contact? a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 19 The repellent quality of external bodies holds their internal parts together in a stronger cohesion. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 136 The different manner..in which their parts become capable of communicating attractive or repellent powers to other matter. 1903 N. Hawkins Progressive Machinist 42 At last the repellent force predominates and the liquid passes off in vapor. 1937 H. H. Donald in A. G. Keller Stud. Sci. of Society 188 The forces impelling movement may be attractive or repellent. 2006 T. K. Sarkar et al. Hist. Wireless iii. 170 There exists a force between two parallel current conductors, attractive for currents in the same direction and repellent for currents in opposite directions. b. Resistant to the absorption or passage of moisture, dirt, oil, etc.Now frequently with preceding word specifying the thing being repelled.water-repellent: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > water-resistant repellent1789 repellant1811 water-repellant1825 water-repellent1842 water-resistant1883 hydrophobe1915 hydrophobic1938 aquaphobic1944 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. xvi. 80 In a wet season..the redundant water falls down..where, meeting with a repellent subsoil, it is held in suspense. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. 44 A manner of draining where the surface soil and base are repellent. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 47 There are some men..whose clothes are repellent of dust and mud. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 360/2 If the film repel the solution, just run the finger..over the repellent portion. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 34/2 (advt.) Johnson's Liquid Wax..imparts a beautiful, dry, dirt-repellent surface [to linoleum] which washes off like glass. 1992 In-fisherman Feb. 158/1 Dupont Zepel—a top-quality rain and stain repellent material. †3. That repels or wards off a harmful influence, attack, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > [adjective] > repelling attack repellent1742 1742 C. Fleming Plea for Infants 39 This implies indeed an imputation of great virtue and efficacy to the water, and may do well enough as the antagonistical or repellent charm, to that of imputed sin. 1823 R. C. Dallas Amabel & Other Poems 104 Onward to the bound he draws Where stretch the Crab's repellent claws. 1888 W. Pater Gaston de Latour ii, in Macmillan's Mag. 58 222/2 He saw the beautiful city..as if sheathed austerely in repellent armour. 4. a. Causing disgust or aversion; repulsive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective] loatha700 eileOE andsetec1000 wlatfulc1230 aloathedc1275 wlatsomea1300 unhonest13.. wlata1325 hideousc1330 abominable1340 hatefula1382 hatesomea1382 abominablec1384 odiousa1387 fulsomec1390 accursedc1400 hatousc1400 rankc1400 hateablec1425 odiblec1425 ugsomec1425 wretchedc1430 loathsomec1440 loathfula1450 noisomea1450 abhominal1477 detestable1477 loathy1481 loathing?a1513 oppugnanta1513 irksome1513 hateworthy1548 abhorful1565 ugged1570 detestine1575 ulcerous1577 opposite1578 scandalous1592 offensive1594 obscene1597 ulcered1602 dirtya1616 abhorrent1628 toady1628 envious1630 repugnant1633 nauseating1645 nauseous1646 obnoxious1646 detestful1654 reluctant1663 horrid1666 abnoxious1682 devilish1692 invidious1710 repellent1776 repellant1780 sickening1789 toadish1822 carrion1826 ugging1839 cussed1853 repugnant1879 jerky1944 vomitous1952 barfy1957 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable > specifically of manners, looks, etc. moy1487 squeamish1577 reserved1605 repellent1776 repellant1780 1776 W. Cockin Occas. Attempts in Verse 68 Why here, the parties meet in soft embrace, And there, repellent furies shake the place. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. xii. 460 Sherlock..is..somewhat repellent in his language. 1865 H. C. Adams White Brunswickers x. 162 Tyrrell's pride frequently rendered him cold and repellent to those who, as he fancied, wished to patronise him. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxiii. 96 He overthrew..the repellent demand that the Gentiles should be circumcised. 1916 Times 6 Nov. 11/4 The world has become a foul rubbish-heap and the face of nature a repellent nightmare. 1956 N. Coward Diary 27 June (2000) 325 We drive back, pissed and exhausted, to eat repellent food at the hotel and fall into bed. 2006 R. Dawkins God Delusion 253 I have described atonement, the central doctrine of Christianity, as vicious, sado-masochistic and repellent. b. Of a substance: causing certain insects or other animals not to settle or approach. ΚΠ 1850 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 15 Apr. 2/1 The odor, or aroma, diffused by this plant is also known to be highly repellent to many kinds of aligerous insects. 1884 Independent (N.Y.) 31 July 7/2 Glover suggested the use of oil and tar gutters..against the canker worm and codling moth... The top of each frame to be..painted with some adhesive or repellent substance. 1920 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1918 29 66 Some means of protecting the nose of every exposed animal would be a simple matter in effecting the exclusion of gnats... He proposed..the application of repellent substances. 1979 ‘D. Kyle’ Green River High x. 131 We were smothered in repellent cream, but that didn't stop them [sc. insects]. 1990 New Scientist 1 Dec. 51 (caption) Ingenious devices to proof buildings against pigeons include repellent gel that makes landing birds feel giddy. c. Biology. Of an animal: not susceptible to infection by a parasite. rare. ΚΠ 1904 E. R. Lankester in Q. Rev. July 127 A more precise nomenclature would describe the attacked organism in the first case as ‘repellent’, for it repels the parasite altogether. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 481/1 Other animals..may be quite ‘repellent’ to this parasite. 1918 E. B. Babcock & R. E. Clausen Genetics in Relation to Agric. xxxiii. 528 It would be possible..for individuals to enjoy freedom from the attacks of either of these two diseases if they happened to be resistant or repellent to the attacks of the particular mosquitos which carry the disease. B. n. †1. Medicine. = repercussive n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine repelling or drawing off repercussivea1398 repulsive?c1425 repercutive?1541 repulser1611 repeller1634 repercusser1634 repellent1661 repriment1684 repellant1689 repercutient1719 1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 94 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Repercussiua medicamina, called also Repellentia, are after Galen thinges sharp, tarte, and adstringent. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ix. 222 Those [medicines], which are called repellentia and regerentia repulsiues, and restrictiues.] 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 431 Fractures..are cured by repellents hindering inflammation. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 170 Repellents in the Gout are sometimes most exceeding dangerous. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Jardon It should be first treated with coolers and repellents, such as hot vinegar, verjuice, &c. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 214 The bark of the root and the..leaves..are considered by the native Indian doctors as powerful repellents. 1893 R. J. Dunglison Dunglison's Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 21) 956/2 Repercussion, disappearance of a tumor or cutaneous eruption in consequence of the action of a repellent. †2. A rejection. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > a denial or refusal nayc1390 negation?a1425 non1551 negativec1571 counterbuff1579 say-nay1657 repellent1777 repellence1817 raspberry1919 1777 S. Johnson Let. 20 Sept. (1992) III. 71 Did he not hold out against forty such repellents from Mrs. P——? 3. †a. A person who or thing which repels something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > that which > repelling force or influence repulsory1611 repulsive1667 repellant1783 repellent1788 1788 N. B. Harrison Travellers iii. ii. 59 Now for a few attractives, to engage this repellent of love—'Gad tho' she is as unpromising as a Lapland winter, I'll whisper in her ear a tender tale. 1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 245 All the impediments that act as repellents to your passion. 1855 S. Whiting Heliondé vii. 323 The Princess was no indignant repellent of my earnest praises. b. Chiefly with modifying word. A substance applied to a fabric or surface in order to make it resistant to moisture, dirt, oil, etc. Cf. sense A. 2b.water-repellent: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > quality of being water-resistant > substance repellant1805 water-repellant1815 water-repellent1840 repellent1843 hydrofuge1886 hydrophobe1924 1843 Times 20 Mar. 11/3 (advt.) For outside coats—Payne's Camlomere is the only real repellent to rain that will retain its impervious quality to the last. 1852 J. Arrowsmith Paper-hanger's Compan. 41 The experiment of compounding it [sc. iron] with drying paint as a repellent of damp. 1876 J. W. Wallace Cases Supreme Court U.S. 23 536 In coating..paper shirt-collars with a thin varnish of ‘bleached shellac’, which..being a repellent of water, prevents perspiration or other moisture from entering the collar. 1883 C. E. Calen Let. 2 Apr. in Ann. Rep. Operations U.S. Life-saving Service (1885) 447 It is made of granulated cork prepared and coated with a ‘water repellent’. 1891 Electr. Engineer 25 Sept. 310/1 Mouldings..must have at least two coatings of water-proof paint or be impregnated with a moisture repellent. 1964 Los Angeles Times 24 May u 3/4 These fabrics are waterproofed and resist sunlight very well. In some cases, they also boast a stain repellent. 1975 Environmental Health Perspectives 11 41 Other types of chemical treatments which are often applied to fabrics..include..water and/or oil repellents. 2004 Design Week (Nexis) 16 Dec. 9 The bath..is filled with white stones and impregnated with a dirt-repellent. c. A substance that causes certain insects or other animals not to settle or approach.Frequently as the second element in compounds, preceded by the name of the animal repelled.insect, mosquito, moth repellent: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling pests repellant1819 screen1822 repellent1861 bug chaser1917 1861 New Eng. Farmer 13 255/2 A pan of smoking cobs, the best preventive of taint as well as repellent of flies, bugs, and other nauseous insects. 1897 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1896 623 Tar.—This substance is commonly used as a repellent by dissolving in water and sprinkling the plants with the solution. 1923 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 16 222 A very effective repellent for practical use is a mixture of one part furfural to four parts pine tar oil. 1968 C. Helmericks Down Wild River North i. xv. 234 Covering myself..with canvas against the angry insects blown back from the horses' backs, and bathing my hooded face with repellent. 1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn viii. 144 This left the insects free to concentrate on me and the repellent I was using hadn't matured with age. 2004 M. K. Andrews Hissy Fit xxvii. 158 My face, where I'd missed applying the bug repellent, stung from numerous mosquito bites. Derivatives reˈpellently adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adverb] loathlya1000 loathsomelya1400 hatefullyc1425 heinouslyc1440 abominably1447 ugsomelyc1450 odiouslya1500 detestably1531 abominationly1592 obscenely1598 repellingly1811 repellently1812 nauseatingly1815 obnoxiously1828 sickeningly1839 rebarbatively1934 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adverb] > disgustingly > repellently repellingly1811 repellently1812 forbiddingly1848 off-puttingly1961 1812 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. 32 Suppl. 329 The fluid accumulated in this place then will act repellently on the neighbouring air. 1913 J. B. Ellis Lahoma vii. 73 She looked at him repellently through her streaming tears. 2008 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. 4 The local scenes, revolving around a small, embattled tribe of mammoth hunters, suggest a repellently cold environment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1575
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