pernicion

English

Etymology

See pernicious.

Noun

pernicion (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) destruction; perdition
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     Synods are whelps o'th'Inquisition,
     A mungrel breed of like pernicion.

References

“pernicion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ponericin