Meaning of pedicular | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to lice.
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2. Caused by lice.
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3. Having the lousy distemper, phthiriasis; infested with lice.
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4. Relating to a stem or pedicle.
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Examples

“1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Hartley Coleridge in H. J. Jackson (ed.), Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters, Oxford: Clarendon Press⟳, 1987, p. 226, We proceed—(at a tortoise or pedicular Crawl, you will say⟳—but believe⟳ me, dear Boy! there is no other way of attaining a clear and productive Insight […] [)]”

“Has humanity ever been put⟳ to a viler use⟳ than by the Banians of Surat, who support⟳ a hospital for vermin in that city, and regale the souls of their friends who are undergoing penance in the shape⟳ of fleas, or in loathsome pedicular form⟳, by hiring beggars to go in among them, and afford⟳ them pasture for the night!”

“1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science” in Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Volume 9, 2nd Series, Volume 5, p. 321, Even now the Homoeopathists have⟳ been […] outraging human nature with infusions of the pediculus capitis; that is, of course, as we understand⟳ their dilutions, the names of these things; for if a fine-tooth-comb insect were drowned in Lake Superior, we cannot agree⟳ with them in thinking that every drop of its waters would be impregnated with all the pedicular virtues they so highly value.”

“And as for my Body, this shape⟳ which I now bear⟳ is more healthfull farr and neat, for now I am not subject to breed⟳ Lice and other Vermin; And whereas this pedicular disease, with a nomberlesse sort⟳ of other maladies and distempers, attend⟳ Mankind, ther’s but one onely disease that our Species is subject unto, which the Veterenarians or Farriers call⟳ Malila […]”

“1750, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, London: W. Innys et al., 6th edition, Volume 2, entry “Pedicularis morbus,” Herod is said to have⟳ died of the Pedicular disease.”

“It became a matter⟳ of suspicion, that the mons veneris might be the seat of a pedicular affection.”

“The pedicular diseases on this view⟳ of the subject may be the result⟳ of diabolical influence⟳, the sensorium of every separate⟳ louse being the habitation of a distinct imp.”

“1885, H. v. Ziemssen, Handbook of Diseases of the Skin, New York: William Wood, “The Parasitic Diseases of the Skin,” p. 540, Hebra did not meet⟳ with pedicular ulcers, nor did he find⟳ lice under or in the skin; they were to be found always either on the hair, hairy parts, or the clothes.”

“When a philosopher condescends to regard commonplace man, he assumes much the attitude that a dandy might if brought, perforce, into contact⟳ with some one suspected of being pedicular.”

“The dead Americans stirred Harry more than the pedicular European Jews he observed at Bergen-Belsen.”

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