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innoxious, a.|ɪˈnɒkʃəs|
[ad. L. innoxi-us, f. in- (in-3) + noxius noxious: see -ous.]
1. Not noxious or hurtful; harmless, innocuous.
1638F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 82 Propounding them⁓selves hereafter an innoxious and happie life. 1703J. Savage Lett. Antients xiii. 70 The Poison Serpents produce remains innoxious to themselves. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 296 Even lions, when surfeited, are innoxious. 1843Sir J. Bowring in Bentham's Wks. VIII. 140 note, Alarm-clocks are innoctious and useful applications of this kind.
†2. Innocent, guiltless, blameless. Obs. rare.
1623Cockeram, Innoxious, blamelesse, guiltlesse. 1735Pope Prol. Sat. 395 The good man walk'd innoxious thro' his age. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 146 Innoxious man: yet what may truth avail! |