exitious

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin exitiosus

Adjective

exitious (comparative more exitious, superlative most exitious)

  1. Harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
    • 1657, Renodaeus tran. Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory‎[1]:
      Diſcorides ſaith that in Perſia they found this Tree to be exitious, which by tranſlation into Ægypt changed its nature
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