arsenicked

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arsenicked (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Poisoned with arsenic.
    • 1836, Elizur Wright, Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, volume 2, page 162:
      Physical poison would make them start from arsenicked bread; shall not the moral poison which is in it, make them start more promptly still from slave produce?
    • 2017, JoAnna Novak, I Must Have You:
      New families are frightened of natural threats more than the old woes: Christian daycares, arsenicked Snickers.