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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr noxa harm; akin to nocere
to harm, hurt. Cf {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.]
1. 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. Guilty; criminal. [R.]
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp.
Bramhall.
Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive;
pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful;
unwholesome; insalubrious. See {Noisome}. --
{Nox"ious*ly}, adv -- {Nox"ious*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
noxious
adj 1: injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical
wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: {harmful}] [ant: {innocuous}]
2: having adverse effect on living things "noxious chemical
wastes" [syn: {deleterious}, {hurtful}, {injurious}]
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