NOXIOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

2.
a.

Guilty; criminal. [R.] Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. Abp. Bramhall.


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