exitious
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]exitious (comparative more exitious, superlative most exitious)
- Harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
- 1657, Renodaeus tran. Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory[1]:
- Diſcorides ſaith that in Perſia they found this Tree to be exitious, which by tranſlation into Ægypt changed its nature