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单词 lethiferous
释义

lethiferousadj.

/liːˈθɪfərəs/
Forms: Also letiferous.
Etymology: < Latin lēt(h)ifer, < lēt(h)um death: see -ferous comb. form.
That causes or results in death, deadly.
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the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective]
deadlyc893
deathlyOE
deathfula1250
mortalc1390
capitalc1426
exitialc1475
fey1488
mortuala1500
perishinga1500
fatal?1518
ferial1528
mortiferousa1538
deadc1540
exitious?1545
deathlike1548
mortifying1555
starvingc1600
lethal1604
speedingc1604
vital1612
irrecoverable1614
feral1621
lethiferous1651
mortific1651
mortifical1657
daggering1694
exitiose1727
fateful1764
kill-devil1831
unsurvivable1839
lethiferal1848
tachythanatous1860
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋85 Lethiferous poisons.
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 29 There is none..that bears so lethiferous and poisonous fruit, as the Tree of the knowledge of the good and evil.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 794 Convulsion and other lethiferous accidents.
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iii. 45 As we murder bishops, so is there another class of persons whom we only afflict with letiferous diseases.
1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses vii. 561 Pending lethiferous blasts by Auster shed.

Derivatives

leˈthiferousness n. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Lethiferousness, Death bringing Quality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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