inimicitious

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin inimicitia (“enmity”), from inimicus (“enemy”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɪnɪmɪˈsɪʃəs/

Adjective[edit]

inimicitious (comparative more inimicitious, superlative most inimicitious)

  1. (obsolete) Inimical; unfriendly, hostile.
    • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 271:
      to drive the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder, liver and sweet-bread of his majesty's subjects, with all the inimicitious passions which belong to them, down into their duodenums.
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