miasmicadj.
/mɪˈazmɪk/, /mʌɪˈazmɪk/, U.S. /maɪˈæzmɪk/, /miˈæzmɪk/ = miasmal adj.
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the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > of or relating to or of nature of noxious vapour
dampish1577
dampy1600
mephitic1623
damp1637
mephitical1704
mephitized1794
miasmic1822
miasmal1832
miasmatic1835
miasmatical1855
miasmatous1861
miasmous1884
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > malaria
paludal1813
miasmic1822
malarious1834
miasmatic1835
malarial1842
miasmous1884
malarian1886
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adjective] > specific > miasma
miasmic1822
miasmal1832
miasmatic1835
miasmatical1855
miasmatous1861
miasmous1884
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 75 In a pure atmosphere, the miasmic materials easily become dissolved or decomposed.
1895 G. Parker When Valmond came to Pontiac (1896) vi. 97 Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions,..lost in a miasmic haze.
1905 F. B. Money-Coutts Musa Verticordia 24 Released from that miasmic spell.
1964 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 29 421/2 In the miasmic atmosphere of the 1920's, many Americans used eugenic arguments to defend elitism, racism, and an opposition to reform.
1991 J. Rifkin Biosphere Politics iv. xxix. 212 Levy..believed that each family emitted its own ‘miasmic exhalations’ by dint of its unique bloodline.
Derivatives
miˈasmically adv.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adverb] > specific
miasmatically1876
miasmically1938
muscarinically1971
the world > matter > gas > [adverb] > in manner of vapour > in manner of noxious vapour
miasmatically1876
miasmically1938
1938 E. Waugh Scoop i. v. 81 Suddenly, miasmically, in the fiery wilderness, there came an apparition.
1998 Indianapolis Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 12 Jan. 11 A short session that once promised to be complete by the end of February now promises to linger miasmically through mid-March.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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