misocapnic

Definitions

Disliking smoking and tobacco smoke.

rare

Examples

“After dinner the party adjourned to the drawing-room, where "the Doctor began to feel⟳ certain cravings for the stimulating fumes of his beloved pipe." The lady of the house, on the alert, caught the half whispered word, and at once interposed her veto. . . . This was not the only occasion, it may be imagined, on which the doctor suffered from the misocapnic prejudices of a fair hostess.”

“All the civilised world is behindhand touching tobacco. It has, like⟳ the Quaker's historical dog, gotten a bad name⟳. One-idea'd hygeists, followers of the "Misocapnic Solomon," have⟳ persuaded the world that it is a slow poison.”

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