单词 | terroristic |
释义 | terroristicadj. That promotes the spread of terror; = terrorist adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective] > of or relating to terrorism or terrorists > characterized by terrorism terrorist1795 terroristic1842 terroristical1842 1842 F. Jones tr. C. von Rotteck Gen. Hist. World IV. 264 Richelieu..opposed with energy the terroristic counsels of this camarilla. 1884 Stepniak in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 327 The gradual progress of the terroristic tendency under the influence of Government repression. 1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. ii. ii. 103 The terroristic acts and wars into which that social earthquake degenerated. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 308 The terroristic procedure associated in these days with Nazism, Fascism and Bolshevism. 1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 26 Sept. 9/1 The background of terroristic acts is connected with a deep hatred of bourgeois society. 2003 Daily Mirror 1 Apr. 13/1 US generals have decreed that the Iraqi paramilitaries they are fighting are ‘terroristic death squads’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1842 |
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