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obnoxious, a.|əbˈnɒkʃəs|
[f. L. obnoxiōs-us, f. obnoxi-us exposed to harm, subject, liable, f. ob- (ob- 1 a, b) + noxa hurt, injury; cf. noxius hurtful, injurious, noxious.]
1. Exposed to (actual or possible) harm; subject or liable to injury or evil of any kind.
a. With to: Liable, subject, exposed, open (to anything harmful, or undesirable; also, by extension, to any kind of influence or agency). Formerly the prevailing use; now less frequent than 6.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxxi. §13 Whom..they would..make obnoxious to what punishment themselves list. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. ii, The finest wits..are before other obnoxious to it [melancholy]. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 93 Cover them with fern or straw, to secure them from the frosts, to which they are obnoxious. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. xiii. 75 Being..thus obnoxious to fallacy in our apprehensions. 1682Bunyan Holy War (Cassell) 208 The town of Mansoul..now lies obnoxious to its foes. 1712Addison Spect. No. 441 ⁋2 We are obnoxious to so many Accidents. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 45 They render themselves obnoxious to the Justice of God. 1810Southey Kehama xiv. xiv, That corporeal shape alike to pain Obnoxious as to pleasure. 1847Grote Greece ii. liv. (1862) IV. 565 Obnoxious to general dislike. 1891Law Times XCI. 406/2 A similar case, and is obnoxious to similar criticism.
†b. With inf. Liable. Obs.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 118 Our corruption now is more obnoxious and apter to admitte and inuite such poysonous ingredients. 1643Abp. Williams Let. in Carte Collect. Lett. (1735) 254 His Majestie..soe obnoxious to be shaken and removed by variety of councills out of any settled resolution. a1677Hale Contempl. ii. 49 The time of Youth is most Obnoxious to forget God. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 72 They..were obnoxious to be taken up by every peevish sheriff or magistrate.
†c. simply. Liable or exposed to harm. rare.
a1631Donne Progr. Soul in Poems (1633) 265 Thinke but how poore thou wast, how obnoxious, Whom a small lumpe of flesh could poyson thus. 1682Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 1 Were it not for the discharge of my duty..I should not so far expose and lay myself obnoxious, as I foresee I shall do.
†2. Liable to punishment or censure; guilty, blameworthy, reprehensible. Obs.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Obnoxious, subiect to danger, faultie. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 353 The Doctrines of the Keyes..and all the ceremonies, which were the most obnoxious matters. 1642Vind. of King p. ii, It could make that obnoxious, which till this Parliament no man could ever call a fault. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. xiii, Our..persons were not obnoxious. a1774Goldsm. Misc. Writ. (ed. Prior) I. 535 A late work has appeared to us highly obnoxious in this respect.
†3. Subject to the rule, power, or authority of another; answerable, amenable (to some authority); dependent, subject; hence, submissive, obsequious, deferential. Const. to. Obs.
1581Savile Tacitus, Hist. ii. xix. (1604) 80 The Generals being obnoxious, and not daring to prohibit it. Ibid. xxxvii. (1591) 75 One..of their owne creation, and therefore wholly obnoxious to them. 1658Cleveland Rustick Ramp. Wks. (1687) 437 That Kings are only the Tenants of Heaven, obnoxious to God alone. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 119 Hans-Towns,..partly..free; and partly Provincial, and obnoxious. a1695Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 397 Most of them..being sneaking and obnoxious, they did run rather with the temper of the Warden than stand against him. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 77 An existence that is not dependent upon or obnoxious to any other. 1754A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 72 Whether they are not obnoxious to the Association for preserving the Game.
†4. With to: Exposed to the (physical) action or influence of; liable to be affected by; open to.
1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 56 That thinne substance, which by its own lenitie is obnoxious to whateuer presseth it. 1665Surv. Aff. Netherl. 122 West-Friezland..lyeth Eastward obnoxious to Westphalen in High-Germany, N. and W. to the main Ocean. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. cclviii, The most in fields like herded beasts lie down, To dews obnoxious. 1671Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 235 They are obnoxious to sense, and fall under our cognisance.
¶5. erron. (by confusion with noxious): Hurtful, injurious. Obs.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 368 Cold aire in time of sweating is obnoxious and dangerous. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 323 Crocodile..the most obnoxious of sea monsters. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 81 Unseasonable times of study are very obnoxious, as after meales. 1683Salmon Doron Med. ii. 587 Powerful in extirpating all obnoctious tumors.
6. That is an object of aversion or dislike; offensive, objectionable, odious, highly disagreeable; sometimes with more active force: Giving offence, acting objectionably. (Cf. 2 and 5.) The chief current use, app. affected by association with noxious. Const. to.
1675Wood Life 3 July (O.H.S.) II. 318 A very obnoxious person; an ill neighbour; and given much to law sutes with any. 1680in Somers Tracts I. 110 To make them lothsome and obnoxious to the People. 1789Belsham Ess. I. iii. 53 Strickland..had the presumption to move the obnoxious bill. 1841E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 69 Carlyle..is becoming very obnoxious now that he has become popular. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 449 They did not dare to publish a work if its author were obnoxious to the Court. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xi. (1878) 216 Thumb-marks I find very obnoxious. |