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Definition of Mordacious

1. Adjective. Capable of wounding. "Pungent satire"

2. Adjective. Biting or given to biting. "They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"

Definition of Mordacious

1. a. Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.

Definition of Mordacious

1. Adjective. Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive ¹

2. Adjective. sharp or caustic in style or tone. ¹

3. Adjective. Prone to biting, aggressive (of an animal etc.). ¹

4. Adjective. Sharp in intent, sarcastic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mordacious

morbus Addisonii morbuses morceau morceaux morcel morcellate morcellation morcellement morcels morcha

morchas morcilla morcillas morclofone mordacious (current term) mordaciously mordacities mordacity mordancies mordancy

mordant mordanted mordanting mordantly mordants mordenite mordent mordents mordicancy

Literary usage of Mordacious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Many of these [composts] are not only sensibly hot, but mordacious and burning. Evelyn, Terra. 3. ... In a mordacious or biting manner ; sarcastically. ..."

2. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1897)
"... but army and battle these two are ;— 'mordacious beasts the shaft, ... as they fight in army and battle, those mordacious beasts are the shaft; ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"mordacious, л. I. Biting. Morceau, я. . I' rJ Bit, montel, small piece. 3. ... Biting, mordacious, keen, caustic, 2. Again, further, besides, in addition. ..."

4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"He was especially mordacious against "Pester More." He had his own grudges against the name, belonging also to "Alexander the Great," her brother. ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... was maintained by a fierce dogmatic spirit, and by a peculiar style of mordacious contempt and intolerant insolence, beating down his opponents from all ..."

6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Lat. re-, again ; and mordere, to bite ; see Re- and mordacious. ^f Chaucer has the verb remora ( = OF ..."

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