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fetid, fœtid, a. and n.|ˈfɛtɪd, ˈfiːtɪd|
Forms: 6 foetide, (7 fetode, 8 fætid), 7– fetid, fœtid.
[ad. L. fētid-us (often incorrectly written fœtidus), f. fētēre to have an offensive smell.]
A. adj. Having an offensive smell; stinking.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 159/2 It maketh to blister both handes, & feet, out of which issueth foetide, and stinckinge water. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 157 Heron, the flesh is better..though some count it fœtid. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 362 Animal Humours, by Heat, stink and grow foetid. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 209 A kind of wild sheep..which are of so faetid a smell. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. v. 41 They [buzzard vultures] tore out the eyes of the quarry with their fetid beaks. 1879Green Read. Eng. Hist. xxi. 107 Sent up their fetid odours, rank with fever.
fig.1805Foster Ess. i. vii. 109 The foetid heroes of the Dunciad. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 205 Any such fœtid mass of dead letter, as the labyrinth composed of the books of practice. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. (1875) III. xviii. 77 The fetid atmosphere of a court.
b. fetid gum (see quot.); fetid pill, a pill containing Asafœtida.
1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 299 The patient may..take..fœtid pills every six hours. 1858Carpenter Veg. Phys. §593 Fœtid gums are of the nature of Gum-resins..and are distinguished by their powerfully disagreeable odour. Those most in use are Assafœtida and Galbanum.
†B. n. pl. Fetid drugs. Obs.
1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 333 Drawer of Fætids. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 394, I know that Fætids will repress Vapours in Women. 1748Hartley Observ. Man. i. ii. 183 The Smell of those Fetids which revive.
Hence feˈtidity [+ -ity], the quality or state of being fetid; a fetid nature or condition; foulness, ill savour, offensiveness. ˈfetidly adv., in a fetid condition or manner; offensively. ˈfetidness = fetidity. Also concr. something fetid.
1704R. Brown tr. Plutarch's Morals III. 465 Salts with the Sea-water..colliquating whatever is foreign and superfluous, suffer no fetidness or putrefaction to breed. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 283 Of a penetrating smell, and remarkable for its fetidity. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 124 What an image..of the fetidness of sin. 1869Daily News 5 Jan., Often foully dirty and so fœtidly uncomfortable..the Marylebone cells call strongly for reformation. |