| 释义 |
ˈvenomousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being venomous; † venomous matter.
c1530Judic. Urines ii. xiv. 45 b, Through excesse and vyolence of hete and of venymousnes and malyce of the sekenesse. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lv. 21 They wounded him with their privie venemousnes. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 38/2 The parte is onlye soacked throughe with some certayne venoumousenes. 1599― tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 132/2 When the people doe suddaynly dye of this disease, it is then to be feared ther was any venoumousnes annexed thervnto. 1611Cotgr., Virulence,..poison, venomousnesse. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Venomousness, poisonous Nature or Quality. 1728Chambers Cycl., Viper,..a kind of Serpent, famed..for the exceeding Venomousness of its Bite. 1775in Ash; and in later Dicts. |