distractious
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]distractious (comparative more distractious, superlative most distractious)
- (obsolete) distractive
- 1678?, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious, and distractious thing.
- 1678?, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “distractious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)