septicadj.¹n.

Brit.

/ˈsɛptɪk/, U.S.

/ˈsɛptɪk/

Forms: 1500s–1600s septick, 1600s sceptick, 1600s septicke, 1600s– septic, 1800s sceptic.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sēpticus.

Etymology: < classical Latin sēpticus (of medicaments) putrefactive, corrosive (Pliny) < ancient Greek σηπτικός putrefactive < σηπτός rotten, in Hellenistic Greek also putrefactive ( < σήπειν to putrefy, of unknown origin + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix.Compare Middle French, French septique (1538), Italian settico (1598). With use as noun compare the following example of post-classical Latin septica (plural) in an English context:1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. clxxxvi. f. 121 in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Medicines putrefactiue, called of the learned sort Septica, according to Auicen, be those that haue strength to corrupt the complexion of the member, and to enduce an escharr lyke dead fleshe. In senses B. 2 and B. 3 short for septic tank n.

A. adj.¹

1. Medicine.

†a. Of a medicinal agent: having the property of destroying abnormal tissue by corrosion or (supposed) putrefaction. Also: designating this property. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. ix. xii. sig. Ii2^v The midicament Septick is stronger then the Carherick [sic]: for by the great heate and thyn substance it hath the force to vlcer the skin, likewise the flesh, yet with little dolour.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 160 Either septic putrifying, or caustic burning.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 211 Vitriol, according to Galen..is of a corroding and sceptick quality.

1705 T. Greenhill Νεκροκηδεια 272 After the nature of Septic and Escharotic Medicines, it corrodes and consumes the Flesh in a very short Time.

1747 P. Shaw Philos. & Chym. Anal. Antimony 53 Rulandus also ascribes to his Crocus a septic Virtue.

b. Originally: causing or exhibiting putrefaction (esp. as a process believed to produce disease) (now historical and rare). In later use: infected with, contaminated by, or containing bacteria or other pathogens; of, relating to, or caused or complicated by infection with bacteria or other pathogens; affected with sepsis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied

forrottedc897

foulOE

rotted?c1225

rottena1250

corruptc1380

enraged1398

putrefieda1413

purulent?a1425

putrid?a1425

ranka1425

rottenly1435

corrupped1533

corruptious1559

attainted1573

rot1573

putrefacted1574

baggage1576

tainted1577

pourryc1580

corruptive1593

putrilaginous1598

putrefactious1609

taint1620

putid1660

rottenish1691

septic1746

corrupted1807

mullocky1839

rotty1872

seething1875

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > septic

septical1635

septic1746

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > corrupt or putrid

rottingeOE

foulOE

rotted?c1225

rottena1250

corruptc1380

putrefieda1413

putrid?a1425

ranka1425

rottenly1435

pourryc1450

moskin1531

corrupped1533

corrupting1567

attainted1573

rot1573

putrefacted1574

baggage1576

tainted1577

pury1602

putrefactious1609

putrefactive1610

taint1620

putrescent1624

festerous1628

putid1660

scandalous1676

rottenish1691

putrefying1746–7

septic1746

corrupted1807

decomposing1833

decomposed1846

seething1875

1746 tr. J. Astruc Gen. Treat. Dis. Children 119 The same may be understood of the water bewixt the pericranium and cranium, especially because by its stagnation it assumes a septic quality.

1752 J. Pringle Observ. Dis. Army iii. vii. 354 The miasma or septic ferment (consisting of the effluvia from putrid substances) received into the blood, has a power of corrupting the whole mass.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 79 If this matter is the sceptic [sic] principle, the foundation of all these chronic diseases.

1873 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 92 The symptoms are of such a low type..that they may be truly termed malignant. The terms ‘putrid’ or ‘septic’ are sometimes applied to fever under these circumstances.

1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xiii. 334 The preventing of the wound from becoming a nidus for the propagation of septic bacteria.

1881 Times 25 Mar. 5 Illness has palpably been produced by the use, by paper-hangers, of size and paste undergoing or speedily entering on septic change.

1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) xiii. 195 Epidemics of scarlet fever, septic sore throat, etc. have been traced to certified milk, which has had almost all conceivable safeguards thrown around it.

1930 Lancet 15 Feb. 349/1 The thumb therefore is ten times more septic than the dummy.

1988 E. Segal Doctors xxiv. 377 He could be septic from an overwhelming bacterial infection introduced by the burns.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 77 Calendula (Calend.) Promotes healing of grazes, and good for wounds that may be going septic.

2. Designating systems of sewage treatment that utilize the process of anaerobic digestion, esp. by means of a septic tank. Also: of or relating to such a system; undergoing anaerobic digestion or decomposition (often to a degree considered to be excessive or that is productive of undesirable gases and odours).Earliest in septic tank n. 1.

ΚΠ

1896 Western Times (Exeter) 7 Mar. 3/4 He visited Exeter, and saw in operation a septic tank system of sewage treatment.

1896 Western Times (Exeter) 29 June 4/2 He would consent to tanks for the septic system being constructed for the treatment of Sidford sewage.

1906 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 25 720 It has, when fresh, the faint, not unpleasant odour of well-digested septic sludge.

1974 G. Hedstrom Soil Surv. Cumberland County, Maine (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 37/1 Because of possible ground-water contamination from septic effluent, this soil has moderate limitations for use as homesites where septic tank systems must be installed.

2010 Warwick (Queensland) Daily News (Nexis) 4 Jan. 8 Expect to be queuing for five minutes to use one of only two facilities on a septic system with rice paper-like rolls, no soap and barely touchable running water.

3. slang (originally and chiefly British). Very bad or unpleasant, nasty, disagreeable. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective]

sickc960

foulOE

unwholec1000

thewlessa1327

corrupt1340

viciousc1340

unwholesomec1374

infecta1387

rustyc1390

unsound?a1400

rottenc1400

rotten-heartedc1405

cankereda1450

infectedc1449

wasted1483

depravate?1520

poisoned1529

deformed1555

poisonous1555

reprobate1557

corrupted1563

prave1564

base-minded1573

tainted1577

Gomorrhean1581

vice-like1589

depraved1593

debauched1598

deboshedc1598

tarish1601

sunk1602

speckled1603

deboist1604

diseased1608

ulcerous1611

vitial1614

debauchc1616

deboise1632

pravous1653

depravea1711

unhealthy1821

scrofulous1842

septic1914

1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels ii. xviii. 172 Philip enquired after Mr. Brett, and learned that that ‘septic blighter’ (Timothy's description) had retired from the position of Housemaster.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xviii. 248 Rennett had had a pretty septic life.

1958 L. Durrell Balthazar 248 What septic weather to-day!

1974 G. Mitchell Winking at Brim vii. 62 Mummy and Daddy have had a row. Isn't it septic of them?

2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad xviii. 131 Menelaus, the husband of Helen—cousin Helen, Helen the lovely, Helen the septic bitch, root cause of all my misfortunes.

B. n.

1. Originally: a medicinal agent used to destroy abnormal tissue by corrosion or (supposed) putrefaction. In later use: any agent that causes putrefaction. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > from putrefying matter > a putrefactive substance

septic1597

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > corrupt or putrid matter or thing

filthOE

carrion1297

putrefactionc1425

pourriture1494

rottacka1500

corruption1526

septic1597

toad-pool1607

putrification1619

grave-jelly1657

putrilage1657

putrilency1657

putredo1680

putridity1790

putrescence1843

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. ix. xii. sig. Ii2 (heading) The tweft Chapter, of medicaments Cathereticks, Septicks, and Causticks.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 218 The venome of the Salamander is reckoned among Septicks, or corroding things.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 62 Septicks..may not be applied to any Ulcer.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 14 Acid of salt..constitutes..with regulus of antimony, a powerful septic.

1771 R. Watson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 219 The proportion in which it acts as a septic.

1829 R. Christison Treat. Poisons ii. i. 83 Orfila divides Poisons into four classes—the Irritants, Narcotics, Narcotico-acrids, and Septics or Putrefiants.

1991 L. S. King Transformations Amer. Med. vii. 165 Stillé placed infectious agents and toxic substances under a single rubric of septics, having as a common feature the action of putrefaction.

2. Originally Australian. Now also North American. In elliptical use. A septic tank (septic tank n. 1); a wastewater system incorporating a septic tank.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > sewage treatment > [noun] > apparatus for sewage treatment

septic tank1896

percolating filter1901

contact bed1902

trickling filter1903

bacteria bed1913

sedimentation tank1920

septic1929

comminutor1939

1929 Telegraph (Brisbane) 27 Apr. 17/5 (advt.) North Brisbane, 10-roomed Brick House, close to Queen Street,..electric light, 2 septics.

1961 P. White Riders in Chariot iii. viii. 231 Rosetrees lived..in a texture-brick home—city water, no sewerage, but their own septic.

1998 T. Tyler & J. E. M. Sharp Indiana Gardener's Guide 351 It [sc. silver maple] is a..weak-wooded tree with a shallow root system that will invade drain tiles and septics.

2017 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Mar. 28 Overflowing septics constitute a health hazard.

3. Australian slang (derogatory). An American.

ΚΠ

1976 Cleo (Austral.) Aug. 33 Even before R and R, Americans were septics.

1981 D. Stuart I think I'll Live 31 If it isn't the Goddams, the Septics themselves!..Stick around long enough, I told myself, and..you'll see some real live Yanks.

2006 Townsville Bull. (Queensland) (Nexis) 1 Sept. 306 There was a time when that [sc. ‘throw another shrimp on the barbie’] was the first thing septics..would shout at you in an appalling Aussie accent after learning you were from Australia.

Compounds

septic shock n. [after French shock septique (1917 or earlier; now usually choc septique)] Medicine the most severe form or stage of sepsis, requiring administration of intravenous fluids and drugs to maintain blood pressure, and potentially resulting in the failure of vital organs and death.

ΚΠ

1919 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Oct. 531/2 Professor Quénu provisionally distinguishes the following six varieties of shock: Shock by fatigue and cold, nervous shock (or shell shock), haemorrhagic shock, toxic shock.., septic shock, and complex shock.

1983 News-Herald (Panama City, Florida) 10 Feb. 158/1 Septic shock, resulting from overwhelming infection, is a frequent killer of young and seemingly healthy men and women.

2016 Radio Times 4 June (South/West ed.) 35/3 My surgery was complicated: I had septic shock, all my organs failed and I felt very ill.

Derivatives

ˈseptically adv. in a septic manner; by a septic process.

ΚΠ

1854 W. E. Swaine tr. C. von Rokitansky Man. Pathol. Anat. I. x. 365 In the latter case, the reception of a sufficient quantity of plasma, degraded in the manner aforesaid by the local process, or else of a heterogenously diseased,—for example, of an ichorous or septically constituted—plasma is indispensable.

1918 Sci. Amer. 28 Dec. 519/3 Workers whose hands become septically infected should not be allowed to work on machines.

1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 June (Features section) A hand scraped against coral septically festers and swells.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	septic
释义	septicadj.¹n. Brit. /ˈsɛptɪk/, U.S. /ˈsɛptɪk/ Forms: 1500s–1600s septick, 1600s sceptick, 1600s septicke, 1600s– septic, 1800s sceptic. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sēpticus. Etymology: < classical Latin sēpticus (of medicaments) putrefactive, corrosive (Pliny) < ancient Greek σηπτικός putrefactive < σηπτός rotten, in Hellenistic Greek also putrefactive ( < σήπειν to putrefy, of unknown origin + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix.Compare Middle French, French septique (1538), Italian settico (1598). With use as noun compare the following example of post-classical Latin septica (plural) in an English context:1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. clxxxvi. f. 121 in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Medicines putrefactiue, called of the learned sort Septica, according to Auicen, be those that haue strength to corrupt the complexion of the member, and to enduce an escharr lyke dead fleshe. In senses B. 2 and B. 3 short for septic tank n. A. adj.¹ 1. Medicine. †a. Of a medicinal agent: having the property of destroying abnormal tissue by corrosion or (supposed) putrefaction. Also: designating this property. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. ix. xii. sig. Ii2^v The midicament Septick is stronger then the Carherick [sic]: for by the great heate and thyn substance it hath the force to vlcer the skin, likewise the flesh, yet with little dolour. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 160 Either septic putrifying, or caustic burning. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 211 Vitriol, according to Galen..is of a corroding and sceptick quality. 1705 T. Greenhill Νεκροκηδεια 272 After the nature of Septic and Escharotic Medicines, it corrodes and consumes the Flesh in a very short Time. 1747 P. Shaw Philos. & Chym. Anal. Antimony 53 Rulandus also ascribes to his Crocus a septic Virtue. b. Originally: causing or exhibiting putrefaction (esp. as a process believed to produce disease) (now historical and rare). In later use: infected with, contaminated by, or containing bacteria or other pathogens; of, relating to, or caused or complicated by infection with bacteria or other pathogens; affected with sepsis. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied forrottedc897 foulOE rotted?c1225 rottena1250 corruptc1380 enraged1398 putrefieda1413 purulent?a1425 putrid?a1425 ranka1425 rottenly1435 corrupped1533 corruptious1559 attainted1573 rot1573 putrefacted1574 baggage1576 tainted1577 pourryc1580 corruptive1593 putrilaginous1598 putrefactious1609 taint1620 putid1660 rottenish1691 septic1746 corrupted1807 mullocky1839 rotty1872 seething1875 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > septic septical1635 septic1746 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > corrupt or putrid rottingeOE foulOE rotted?c1225 rottena1250 corruptc1380 putrefieda1413 putrid?a1425 ranka1425 rottenly1435 pourryc1450 moskin1531 corrupped1533 corrupting1567 attainted1573 rot1573 putrefacted1574 baggage1576 tainted1577 pury1602 putrefactious1609 putrefactive1610 taint1620 putrescent1624 festerous1628 putid1660 scandalous1676 rottenish1691 putrefying1746–7 septic1746 corrupted1807 decomposing1833 decomposed1846 seething1875 1746 tr. J. Astruc Gen. Treat. Dis. Children 119 The same may be understood of the water bewixt the pericranium and cranium, especially because by its stagnation it assumes a septic quality. 1752 J. Pringle Observ. Dis. Army iii. vii. 354 The miasma or septic ferment (consisting of the effluvia from putrid substances) received into the blood, has a power of corrupting the whole mass. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 79 If this matter is the sceptic [sic] principle, the foundation of all these chronic diseases. 1873 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 92 The symptoms are of such a low type..that they may be truly termed malignant. The terms ‘putrid’ or ‘septic’ are sometimes applied to fever under these circumstances. 1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xiii. 334 The preventing of the wound from becoming a nidus for the propagation of septic bacteria. 1881 Times 25 Mar. 5 Illness has palpably been produced by the use, by paper-hangers, of size and paste undergoing or speedily entering on septic change. 1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) xiii. 195 Epidemics of scarlet fever, septic sore throat, etc. have been traced to certified milk, which has had almost all conceivable safeguards thrown around it. 1930 Lancet 15 Feb. 349/1 The thumb therefore is ten times more septic than the dummy. 1988 E. Segal Doctors xxiv. 377 He could be septic from an overwhelming bacterial infection introduced by the burns. 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 77 Calendula (Calend.) Promotes healing of grazes, and good for wounds that may be going septic. 2. Designating systems of sewage treatment that utilize the process of anaerobic digestion, esp. by means of a septic tank. Also: of or relating to such a system; undergoing anaerobic digestion or decomposition (often to a degree considered to be excessive or that is productive of undesirable gases and odours).Earliest in septic tank n. 1. ΚΠ 1896 Western Times (Exeter) 7 Mar. 3/4 He visited Exeter, and saw in operation a septic tank system of sewage treatment. 1896 Western Times (Exeter) 29 June 4/2 He would consent to tanks for the septic system being constructed for the treatment of Sidford sewage. 1906 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 25 720 It has, when fresh, the faint, not unpleasant odour of well-digested septic sludge. 1974 G. Hedstrom Soil Surv. Cumberland County, Maine (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 37/1 Because of possible ground-water contamination from septic effluent, this soil has moderate limitations for use as homesites where septic tank systems must be installed. 2010 Warwick (Queensland) Daily News (Nexis) 4 Jan. 8 Expect to be queuing for five minutes to use one of only two facilities on a septic system with rice paper-like rolls, no soap and barely touchable running water. 3. slang (originally and chiefly British). Very bad or unpleasant, nasty, disagreeable. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective] sickc960 foulOE unwholec1000 thewlessa1327 corrupt1340 viciousc1340 unwholesomec1374 infecta1387 rustyc1390 unsound?a1400 rottenc1400 rotten-heartedc1405 cankereda1450 infectedc1449 wasted1483 depravate?1520 poisoned1529 deformed1555 poisonous1555 reprobate1557 corrupted1563 prave1564 base-minded1573 tainted1577 Gomorrhean1581 vice-like1589 depraved1593 debauched1598 deboshedc1598 tarish1601 sunk1602 speckled1603 deboist1604 diseased1608 ulcerous1611 vitial1614 debauchc1616 deboise1632 pravous1653 depravea1711 unhealthy1821 scrofulous1842 septic1914 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels ii. xviii. 172 Philip enquired after Mr. Brett, and learned that that ‘septic blighter’ (Timothy's description) had retired from the position of Housemaster. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xviii. 248 Rennett had had a pretty septic life. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar 248 What septic weather to-day! 1974 G. Mitchell Winking at Brim vii. 62 Mummy and Daddy have had a row. Isn't it septic of them? 2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad xviii. 131 Menelaus, the husband of Helen—cousin Helen, Helen the lovely, Helen the septic bitch, root cause of all my misfortunes. B. n. 1. Originally: a medicinal agent used to destroy abnormal tissue by corrosion or (supposed) putrefaction. In later use: any agent that causes putrefaction. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > from putrefying matter > a putrefactive substance septic1597 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > corrupt or putrid matter or thing filthOE carrion1297 putrefactionc1425 pourriture1494 rottacka1500 corruption1526 septic1597 toad-pool1607 putrification1619 grave-jelly1657 putrilage1657 putrilency1657 putredo1680 putridity1790 putrescence1843 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. ix. xii. sig. Ii2 (heading) The tweft Chapter, of medicaments Cathereticks, Septicks, and Causticks. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 218 The venome of the Salamander is reckoned among Septicks, or corroding things. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 62 Septicks..may not be applied to any Ulcer. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 14 Acid of salt..constitutes..with regulus of antimony, a powerful septic. 1771 R. Watson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 219 The proportion in which it acts as a septic. 1829 R. Christison Treat. Poisons ii. i. 83 Orfila divides Poisons into four classes—the Irritants, Narcotics, Narcotico-acrids, and Septics or Putrefiants. 1991 L. S. King Transformations Amer. Med. vii. 165 Stillé placed infectious agents and toxic substances under a single rubric of septics, having as a common feature the action of putrefaction. 2. Originally Australian. Now also North American. In elliptical use. A septic tank (septic tank n. 1); a wastewater system incorporating a septic tank. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > sewage treatment > [noun] > apparatus for sewage treatment septic tank1896 percolating filter1901 contact bed1902 trickling filter1903 bacteria bed1913 sedimentation tank1920 septic1929 comminutor1939 1929 Telegraph (Brisbane) 27 Apr. 17/5 (advt.) North Brisbane, 10-roomed Brick House, close to Queen Street,..electric light, 2 septics. 1961 P. White Riders in Chariot iii. viii. 231 Rosetrees lived..in a texture-brick home—city water, no sewerage, but their own septic. 1998 T. Tyler & J. E. M. Sharp Indiana Gardener's Guide 351 It [sc. silver maple] is a..weak-wooded tree with a shallow root system that will invade drain tiles and septics. 2017 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Mar. 28 Overflowing septics constitute a health hazard. 3. Australian slang (derogatory). An American. ΚΠ 1976 Cleo (Austral.) Aug. 33 Even before R and R, Americans were septics. 1981 D. Stuart I think I'll Live 31 If it isn't the Goddams, the Septics themselves!..Stick around long enough, I told myself, and..you'll see some real live Yanks. 2006 Townsville Bull. (Queensland) (Nexis) 1 Sept. 306 There was a time when that [sc. ‘throw another shrimp on the barbie’] was the first thing septics..would shout at you in an appalling Aussie accent after learning you were from Australia. Compounds septic shock n. [after French shock septique (1917 or earlier; now usually choc septique)] Medicine the most severe form or stage of sepsis, requiring administration of intravenous fluids and drugs to maintain blood pressure, and potentially resulting in the failure of vital organs and death. ΚΠ 1919 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Oct. 531/2 Professor Quénu provisionally distinguishes the following six varieties of shock: Shock by fatigue and cold, nervous shock (or shell shock), haemorrhagic shock, toxic shock.., septic shock, and complex shock. 1983 News-Herald (Panama City, Florida) 10 Feb. 158/1 Septic shock, resulting from overwhelming infection, is a frequent killer of young and seemingly healthy men and women. 2016 Radio Times 4 June (South/West ed.) 35/3 My surgery was complicated: I had septic shock, all my organs failed and I felt very ill. Derivatives ˈseptically adv. in a septic manner; by a septic process. ΚΠ 1854 W. E. Swaine tr. C. von Rokitansky Man. Pathol. Anat. I. x. 365 In the latter case, the reception of a sufficient quantity of plasma, degraded in the manner aforesaid by the local process, or else of a heterogenously diseased,—for example, of an ichorous or septically constituted—plasma is indispensable. 1918 Sci. Amer. 28 Dec. 519/3 Workers whose hands become septically infected should not be allowed to work on machines. 1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 June (Features section) A hand scraped against coral septically festers and swells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). septicadj.² Brit. /ˈsɛptɪk/, U.S. /ˈsɛptɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: septon n., -ic suffix Etymology: < sept- (in septon n.) + -ic suffix (compare -ic suffix 1b). Chemistry. Now historical and rare. In the terminology of S. L. Mitchill: of or relating to nitrogen (cf. septon n.); nitrous, nitric. Chiefly in septic acid n. nitric acid; cf. septous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > acids > [noun] > acids-named > containing nitrogen > nitric or nitrous acid septic acid1795 septous1795 septous acid1795 1795 S. L. Mitchill Remarks Gaseous Oxyd Azote or Nitrogene 12 (table) [I should] have made the nomenclature stand thus:..Septic gas, instead of nitrous gas. 1795 S. L. Mitchill Remarks Gaseous Oxyd Azote or Nitrogene 13 (table) Septic acid; instead of nitric acid. 1800 S. Brown Treat. Yellow Fever 38 The next degrees of combination with oxygene with septon, are septic gas, and septic acid gas. 1815 Med. Repository New Ser. 2 315 The second indication was to restore the action of the glandular and lymphatic system, and to correct the septic acid in the primæ viæ. 2014 S. L. Kotar & J. E. Gessler Cholera iv. 20 Taking his theory one step further, Mitchell [sic] believed that alkalies and lime neutralized the septic acid of animal excrements. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹n.1597adj.²1795
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