DELETERIOUS

Vikki

Posted: 04 February 2009 09:13 PM

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Discuss deleterious here.

adjective

1) Noxious, poisonous, hurtful, or injurious to life.

“Many things neither deleterious by substance or quality are yet destructive by figure, or some occasional activity.” - Browne

2) Injurious, hurtful morally.

[Low Latin deleterious, from Greek deleterious = noxious, hurtful; deleomai = to hurt; deleter = a destroyer.]

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douglang

Posted: 04 February 2009 09:28 PM

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I think it’s something John McEnroe said when you kept deleting his marginal contributions to the Agora, Vikki.

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ACB

Posted: 12 February 2009 06:11 AM

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Doesn’t the Latin delere (to destroy) come into this somewhere?

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LukeJavan8

Posted: 13 February 2009 08:52 AM

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It could, I would think. Deleo, delere, delevi, deletum. The fourth principal part. To remove, to destroy, to wipe away. Above, Vikki, says “deleter = a destroyer”,
tho’ I’ve never heard the term.

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