| 单词 |
predatorious |
| 释义 |
† predaˈtorious, a. Obs. [f. as next + -ous.] = predatory (esp. in sense 3).
1640Gauden Love of Truth (1641) 21 Interpreting that zeale, which is but naturall passion and choler, an humane, feaverish and prædatorious, not that holy, gentle, and propicious heate of love. 1659― Slight Healers (1660) 56 In complicated diseases..to give check to that, which is most accute, malignant and predatorious of the spirits. a1677Manton Serm. Ps. cxix. 36 xli. Wks. 1872 VI. 379 There is a vital heat necessary to our preservation, and there are unnatural predatorious heats which argue a distemper. |

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