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-fuge, suffix|fjuːdʒ|
occurring in words (adj. and n.) f. mod.L. types in -fugus. According to classical L. analogy, this ending should be connected with fugĕre to flee (cf. profugus), and should have the sense ‘fleeing from’ (cf. lucifugus, erifuga). In the medical words febrifugus, lit. driving away fevers, vermifugus expelling worms, however, the ending derives its sense from L. fugāre, to put to flight. In imitation of the anglicized forms of these, nonce-wds. in -fuge have occasionally been formed; chiefly on Lat. stems, as demonifuge (q.v.), dolorifuge, something to drive away pain; but occasionally on Eng. words, as mendacity-fuge.
1802–12Bentham Rationale of Judic. Evid. (1827) V. ix. iv. 429 In all purely pecuniary cases, to which the virtue of the mendacity-fuge diaphoretic does not extend. 1891T. Hardy Tess I. 86 The children..had made use of this idea as a species of dolorifuge after the death of the horse. |