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Definition of Noxious

1. Adjective. Injurious to physical or mental health. "Noxious ideas"

Definition of Noxious

1. a. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.

Definition of Noxious

1. Adjective. Harmful; injurious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Noxious

1. harmful to health [adj]

Medical Definition of Noxious

1. 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. "Those who are noxious in the eye of the law." (Abp. Bramhall) Synonym: Noisome, hurtful, harmful, injurious, destructive, pernicious, mischievous, corrupting, baneful, unwholesome, insalubrious. See Noisome. Nox"iously, Nox"iousness. Origin: L. Noxius, fr. Noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Noxious

Literary usage of Noxious

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

1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"The first paper this afternoon is "The Invasion of noxious Weeds," by Professor Elmore Chase. THE INVASION OF noxious WEEDS. BY PROFESSOR ELMORE CHASE. ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"The measure of damages for breach of warranty in the sale of seed containing noxious weed seed, where it has been sown, is the amount of deterioration in ..."

3. Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its Law by Horatio Robinson Storer, Franklin Fiske Heard (1868)
"noxious Thing. On an indictment for administering featherfew and other drugs to procure abortion, it appeared that the prisoner ..."

4. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Status of noxious establishments.—An industrial establishment which is offensive to the senses and the operation of which is attended with noxious effluvia ..."

5. The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1918)
"noxious INSECTS AND MAMMALS The first of the damages to be considered are those due to Losses from noxious insects and mammals. The noxious insects and ..."

6. Publications by Manx Society, Brandeis Lawyers' Society (1871)
"... colour : the wool is fine, and makes a pretty cloth without any dye. noxious ANIMALS. There are several noxious animals, such as badgers, foxes, otters, ..."

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