pedicular
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to lice.
— 1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Hartley Coleridge in H. J. Jackson (ed.), Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, p. 226, We proceed—(at a tortoise or pedicular Crawl, you will say—but believe me, dear Boy! there is no other way of attaining a clear and productive Insight […] [)]
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Caused by lice.
— And as for my Body, this shape which I now bear is more healthfull farr and neat, for now I am not subject to breed Lice and other Vermin; And whereas this pedicular disease, with a nomberlesse sort of other maladies and distempers, attend Mankind, ther’s but one onely disease that our Species is subject unto, which the Veterenarians or Farriers call Malila […]
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Having the lousy distemper, phthiriasis; infested with lice.
— When a philosopher condescends to regard commonplace man, he assumes much the attitude that a dandy might if brought, perforce, into contact with some one suspected of being pedicular.
- Relating to a stem or pedicle.
词汇关系
词源
From Latin pedicularis, from pediculus (“louse”). Compare French pédiculaire. By surface analysis, pedic(u)le + -ar.
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