单词 | tetterous |
释义 | tetterousadj. Of the nature of, proceeding from, or causing tetter. In quot. 1739 perhaps an error for tetrous adj., foul. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > tetter tettery1697 tetterish1709 tetterous1719 tetrous1890 tettered1906 1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (1726) Noli-me-tangere, touch me not, is a tetterous Eruption, thus call'd, from its Soreness, or Difficulty of Cure. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxxv. 129 A tetterous Humour..shall create an Obstruction. 1761 J. Rutty in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 476 Scab, tetterous eruptions, scald head, and sore eyes. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe xii. 181 The lizards, darting from crevice to crevice on a crumbling wall, were in process of shedding tetterous skins to reveal a summer green. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1719 |
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