perniciousadj.¹

Brit.

/pəˈnɪʃəs/, U.S.

/pərˈnɪʃəs/

Forms: late Middle English perniciouse, late Middle English pernysious, late Middle English pervisious (transmission error), late Middle English– pernicious, 1500s parnicious, 1500s parnitious, 1500s pernicyous, 1500s pernicyouse, 1500s pernisious, 1500s pernitions (transmission error), 1500s pernycyous, 1500s pernycyouse, 1500s pernytyous, 1500s–1700s pernitious, 1600s perniceous, 1600s perniciows; Scottish pre-1700 perniciouse, pre-1700 pernicius, pre-1700 pernitious, pre-1700 pernitius, pre-1700 1700s– pernicious.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pernicious, pernicieux; Latin perniciōsus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pernicious and Middle French pernicieux (of an illness) severe (1314 in Old French as pernicieus ; French pernicieux ), (of a person) causing harm (c1370), (of a thing) causing harm (1531) and its etymon classical Latin perniciōsus destructive, deadly, ruinous < perniciēs destruction, ruin, death ( < per- per- prefix + nec- , nex death, destruction (see necial adj.); compare post-classical Latin pernecare to kill outright (c400)) + -ōsus -ous suffix.

1. Of a disease: extremely severe or harmful, life-threatening, fatal. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 36 Cancre of al his kynde is a sikenez pernicious or perilous [?c1425 Paris venemouse; L. pernitiosa].

c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 168^v (MED) And as touchinge þe cure of ony pernicious accidentis if þat it falle as tercoun or dwellynge akiþ intollerabile in þe guttis & in þe wombe..it schal be curid in þis maner.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. ix. 199 A Pestilence..that proved pernitious and deadly to those that Sneezed.

a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor ii. i. 19 in Five New Playes (1659) Would you confound yourself in smothering your love..until it grow To a pernicious disease within you?

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 73 The dreadful effects of this pernicious disease.

1917 J. London South Sea Tales in Sel. Stories (1982) 880 It [sc. the attack] quickly became pernicious, and developed into black-water fever.

2002 Washington Post 18 Mar. (Home ed.) a7/1 It remains the most pernicious and persistent plant disease on Earth.

a. Of a thing, action, intent, etc.: causing or likely to cause harm, esp. in a gradual or insidious manner; dangerous, destructive; evil. Also in weakened use: having a harmful influence; undesirable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > harmful or pernicious

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unsalvatory1850

c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 516 Of a pure malice and longtyme precogitat wykednes..hathe the thirde tyme attemted and put him in his utmoste devoire to accomplesshe his pernysious entent.

1521 J. Fisher (title) Sermon..made agayn ye pernicyous doctryn of Martin luuther.

1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes a ij b A thyng detestable before God,..and pernicious to the parties.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 150 Little honor, to be much beleeu'd, And most pernitious purpose: Seeming, seeming.

1651 T. Hobbes De Cive ii. xii. § 5 What can be more pernicious to any state?

a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 15 Men of pernicious Principles.

1745 Act 18 Geo. II c. 34 §1 A certain pernicious Game called Roulet, or Roly-poly is daily practised.

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) I. 157 These wild dogs are some of the most pernicious beasts of prey.

a1832 J. Bentham Deontology (1834) II. i. 65 The meekness of a man whose meekness is pernicious to others, and useless to himself, is..the contrary of virtuous.

1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 208 All dryers..have in some degree a pernicious influence on colours.

1938 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 25 July (1995) 37 I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine.

2002 Observer 26 May i. 29/4 The result is a pernicious cycle of ever-inflating abuse hurled at migrants.

b. Of a person: intending or causing harm, esp. insidiously; having a deleterious influence; villainous, wicked.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective]

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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective]

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?1533 Image of Ypocresye iv, in Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 264 Pastour improvidus Be false and frivolus..In talkinge sedicious, In doctrine parnicious, haute and ambicious.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 116 Consider howe pernitious a kynde of men this is [L. quam perniciosum sit hoc genus brutorum hominum].

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 22 Seruile Ministers, that haue with 2. pernitious daughters ioin'd Your high engendred battel.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 95 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Resolv'd that they should..make away that pernicious Minister.

1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. x. 187 He is a pernicious citizen, said M. Curius, who cannot be contented with seven acres.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xi. 467 Victims of a pernicious woman's crime.

1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 252 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient as the pernicious Napoleon.

1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 241/1 A more pernicious or chastisable guild of touts it has never been my lot to encounter.

1982 F. Raphael Byron 7 He has been no less often denounced as pernicious than celebrated for his humanity.

Compounds

pernicious contrary n. Papermaking a substance in or on waste paper and cardboard which is difficult to detect and which inhibits its pulping and recycling; cf. contrary n. 3d.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > [noun] > foreign body in

contrary1926

pernicious contrary1961

1814 C. Lamb Confessions of Drunkard (rev. ed.) in B. Montagu Some Enq. Effects Fermented Liquors 201 The tongue of a liar can with the same natural delight give forth useful truths, with which it has been accustomed to scatter their pernicious contraries.]

1961 B.S.I. News Jan. 17/1 Which materials are contraries? A few examples are: metal foils, waxes, vegetable parchment, plastics and cellulose fillers... Other contraries (known as ‘pernicious contraries’) make re-pulping impossible.

1977 L. Hunt Little Green Bk. 53 Ordinary waste paper contaminated by these pernicious contraries is only fit for burning.

pernicious fever n. Medicine (now historical) any of various severe, usually tropical fevers, esp. (falciparum) malaria or yellow fever.

ΚΠ

1802 W. C. Brown tr. G. Borsieri de Kanifeld Inst. Pract. Med. IV. 215 Pernicious fever of any kind.

1884 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 6 128 Our stock of febrifuges was exhausted, and above all we were sadly reduced by the pernicious fever which was difficult to combat without luxuries we could not command.

1893 Lancet 28 Oct. 1055/1 (note) Pernicious fever is a vague term used in these countries and may mean many things.

1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. x. 173 That very day, he had buried four white soldiers who had died of a pernicious fever.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pernicious
释义	perniciousadj.¹ Brit. /pəˈnɪʃəs/, U.S. /pərˈnɪʃəs/ Forms: late Middle English perniciouse, late Middle English pernysious, late Middle English pervisious (transmission error), late Middle English– pernicious, 1500s parnicious, 1500s parnitious, 1500s pernicyous, 1500s pernicyouse, 1500s pernisious, 1500s pernitions (transmission error), 1500s pernycyous, 1500s pernycyouse, 1500s pernytyous, 1500s–1700s pernitious, 1600s perniceous, 1600s perniciows; Scottish pre-1700 perniciouse, pre-1700 pernicius, pre-1700 pernitious, pre-1700 pernitius, pre-1700 1700s– pernicious. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pernicious, pernicieux; Latin perniciōsus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pernicious and Middle French pernicieux (of an illness) severe (1314 in Old French as pernicieus ; French pernicieux ), (of a person) causing harm (c1370), (of a thing) causing harm (1531) and its etymon classical Latin perniciōsus destructive, deadly, ruinous < perniciēs destruction, ruin, death ( < per- per- prefix + nec- , nex death, destruction (see necial adj.); compare post-classical Latin pernecare to kill outright (c400)) + -ōsus -ous suffix. 1. Of a disease: extremely severe or harmful, life-threatening, fatal. Also figurative. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 36 Cancre of al his kynde is a sikenez pernicious or perilous [?c1425 Paris venemouse; L. pernitiosa]. c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 168^v (MED) And as touchinge þe cure of ony pernicious accidentis if þat it falle as tercoun or dwellynge akiþ intollerabile in þe guttis & in þe wombe..it schal be curid in þis maner. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. ix. 199 A Pestilence..that proved pernitious and deadly to those that Sneezed. View more context for this quotation a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor ii. i. 19 in Five New Playes (1659) Would you confound yourself in smothering your love..until it grow To a pernicious disease within you? 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 73 The dreadful effects of this pernicious disease. 1917 J. London South Sea Tales in Sel. Stories (1982) 880 It [sc. the attack] quickly became pernicious, and developed into black-water fever. 2002 Washington Post 18 Mar. (Home ed.) a7/1 It remains the most pernicious and persistent plant disease on Earth. 2. a. Of a thing, action, intent, etc.: causing or likely to cause harm, esp. in a gradual or insidious manner; dangerous, destructive; evil. Also in weakened use: having a harmful influence; undesirable. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > harmful or pernicious baleOE balefulc1175 venomousc1290 contagiousc1440 pestiferous1458 pestilent?a1475 perniciousc1475 pestilential1531 pestilentious1533 plaguey1574 deleterious1630 unedifying1641 perniciable1656 inedifying1659 unimproving1747 insalutary1836 unsalvatory1850 c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 516 Of a pure malice and longtyme precogitat wykednes..hathe the thirde tyme attemted and put him in his utmoste devoire to accomplesshe his pernysious entent. 1521 J. Fisher (title) Sermon..made agayn ye pernicyous doctryn of Martin luuther. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes a ij b A thyng detestable before God,..and pernicious to the parties. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 150 Little honor, to be much beleeu'd, And most pernitious purpose: Seeming, seeming. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes De Cive ii. xii. § 5 What can be more pernicious to any state? a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 15 Men of pernicious Principles. 1745 Act 18 Geo. II c. 34 §1 A certain pernicious Game called Roulet, or Roly-poly is daily practised. 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) I. 157 These wild dogs are some of the most pernicious beasts of prey. a1832 J. Bentham Deontology (1834) II. i. 65 The meekness of a man whose meekness is pernicious to others, and useless to himself, is..the contrary of virtuous. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 208 All dryers..have in some degree a pernicious influence on colours. 1938 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 25 July (1995) 37 I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine. 2002 Observer 26 May i. 29/4 The result is a pernicious cycle of ever-inflating abuse hurled at migrants. b. Of a person: intending or causing harm, esp. insidiously; having a deleterious influence; villainous, wicked. 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Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 116 Consider howe pernitious a kynde of men this is [L. quam perniciosum sit hoc genus brutorum hominum]. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 22 Seruile Ministers, that haue with 2. pernitious daughters ioin'd Your high engendred battel. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 95 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Resolv'd that they should..make away that pernicious Minister. 1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. x. 187 He is a pernicious citizen, said M. Curius, who cannot be contented with seven acres. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xi. 467 Victims of a pernicious woman's crime. 1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 252 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient as the pernicious Napoleon. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 241/1 A more pernicious or chastisable guild of touts it has never been my lot to encounter. 1982 F. Raphael Byron 7 He has been no less often denounced as pernicious than celebrated for his humanity. Compounds pernicious contrary n. Papermaking a substance in or on waste paper and cardboard which is difficult to detect and which inhibits its pulping and recycling; cf. contrary n. 3d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > [noun] > foreign body in contrary1926 pernicious contrary1961 1814 C. Lamb Confessions of Drunkard (rev. ed.) in B. Montagu Some Enq. Effects Fermented Liquors 201 The tongue of a liar can with the same natural delight give forth useful truths, with which it has been accustomed to scatter their pernicious contraries.] 1961 B.S.I. News Jan. 17/1 Which materials are contraries? A few examples are: metal foils, waxes, vegetable parchment, plastics and cellulose fillers... Other contraries (known as ‘pernicious contraries’) make re-pulping impossible. 1977 L. Hunt Little Green Bk. 53 Ordinary waste paper contaminated by these pernicious contraries is only fit for burning. pernicious fever n. Medicine (now historical) any of various severe, usually tropical fevers, esp. (falciparum) malaria or yellow fever. ΚΠ 1802 W. C. Brown tr. G. Borsieri de Kanifeld Inst. Pract. Med. IV. 215 Pernicious fever of any kind. 1884 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 6 128 Our stock of febrifuges was exhausted, and above all we were sadly reduced by the pernicious fever which was difficult to combat without luxuries we could not command. 1893 Lancet 28 Oct. 1055/1 (note) Pernicious fever is a vague term used in these countries and may mean many things. 1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. x. 173 That very day, he had buried four white soldiers who had died of a pernicious fever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † perniciousadj.² Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pernīci- , pernix , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin pernīci-, pernix nimble, quick (probably < perna leg, thigh: see pernio n.) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier pernicity n. N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (pəɹni·ʃəs) /pəˈnɪʃəs/. Obsolete. rare. Rapid, swift, nimble. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] swiftc888 swifta1050 currentc1300 quickc1300 hastivea1325 hastyc1330 ingnel1340 swiftyc1380 speedfula1387 fasta1400 swippingc1420 speedy1487 fleet1528 tite?a1540 scudding1545 flighty1552 suddenly1556 flight1581 feathered1587 Pegasean1590 wing-footed1591 swift-winged?1592 thought-swift-flying1595 wind-winged?1596 swallow-winged1597 Pegasarian1607 skelping1607 rapid1608 night-swifta1616 celerious1632 clipping1635 perniciousa1656 volatile1655 quick-foot1658 meteorous1667 windy1697 high-flying1710 fleet-footed1726 aliped1727 wickc1760 velocious1775 flight-performing1785 fast-going1800 fast-moving1802 meteor1803 wight-wapping1830 fleety1841 speeding1847 swiftening1848 two-forty1855 fire-swift1865 pennate1870 spinning1882 percursory1884 zippy1889 meteoric1895 pacy1906 presto1952 a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 580 Young men, pernicious in respect of their agility [Quoting Caius Velleius Paterculus Rom. Hist. ii. xxxiv, Velocitate pernicibus.]. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 520 Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire. View more context for this quotation 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 155 Though some birds are of such pernicious wing, there are others..that have only rudiments of wings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adj.¹?a1425adj.²a1656
随便看	fiend-tied fiendbegotten fiendborn fiendbreed fiendcompelling fienddrawn fienden fiendface fiendfraying fiendful fiendfully fiendhead fiendhearted fiendish fiendisher fiendishest fiendishlier fiendishliest fiendishly fiendishness fiendishnesses fiendism fiendkin fiendlike fiendliness

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Compounds

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