mordicant
English
Etymology
From Latin mordicans, p.pr. of mordicare (“to bite”), from mordere. Compare French mordicant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔː(ɹ)dɪkənt/
Adjective
mordicant (comparative more mordicant, superlative most mordicant)
- biting; acrid
- 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
- the mordicant quality of Bodies must proceed from a fiery ingredient
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mordicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Adjective
mordicant (feminine mordicante, masculine plural mordicants, feminine plural mordicantes)
Further reading
- “mordicant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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