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Webster 1913 Edition
Obnoxious
1.
Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; – with
to
. The writings of lawyers, which are tied
obnoxious
to their particular laws. Bacon.
Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be
obnoxious
to any private purse. Milton.
Obnoxious
, first or last,To basest things
Milton.
2.
Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
“The contrived and interested schemes of . . . obnoxious authors.” Bp. Fell.
All are
Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
Watching your scepter.
obnoxious
, and this faulty land,Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
Watching your scepter.
Waller.
3.
Very offensive; odious; hateful;
as, an
obnoxious
statesman; a minister obnoxious
to the Whigs. Burke.
Ob-nox′ious-ly
, adv.
Ob-nox′ious-ness
, Noun.
South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Obnoxious
OBNOX'IOUS
,Adj.
1.
Subject; answerable.The writings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their particular laws.
2.
Liable; subject to cognizance or punishment.We know ourselves obnoxious to God's severe justice.
3.
Liable; exposed; as friendship obnoxious to jealousies.4.
Reprehensible; censurable; not approved; as obnoxious authors.5.
Odious; hateful; offensive; with to; as, the minister was obnoxious to the whigs.6.
Hurtful; noxious.