OLIDOUSADJ.
having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid, rank, stinking ...1646 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin olidus smelling from olere to smell FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1646 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...this humor may be a garous excretion, or a rancide and olidous separation," From: Pseudodoxica Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths By: Sir Thomas Browne, 1646 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • The New World of Words or A General English Dictionary, Edward Phillips, 1671 • Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
September 2021
|