Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destructive to life; fatal; dangerous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Destructive; fatal.
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- adjective obsolete
destructive ;fatal
Etymologies
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Latin exitialis, exitious, from exitium ("a going out").
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Examples
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(being dry) in sand, or good earth, till March or earlier, from the time they fell, or were beaten off the tree: Or if before, they be set with husk and all upon them; for the extream bitterness thereof is most exitial and deadly to worms; or it were good to strew some furzes
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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