"cacoethical" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌkakəʊˈiːθɪk(ə)l/ Forms: more cacoethical [comparative], most cacoethical [superlative]
Etymology: cacoethes + -ical Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cacoethes|ical}} cacoethes + -ical Head templates: {{en-adj}} cacoethical (comparative more cacoethical, superlative most cacoethical)
  1. Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethic. Synonyms: cacoethic, cacoëthical Derived forms: cacoethically Related terms: cacoethes
    Sense id: en-cacoethical-en-adj-phLmCAsY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ical

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, Founded Epicurus, Repaired by Petrus Gassendus, Augmented Walter Charleton, Dr. in Medicine, and Physician to the Late Charles, Monarch of Great-Britain. The First Part. [Second Part never published], London: Printed by Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Thomas Heath, and are to be sold at his shop in Russel-street, neer the Piazza of Covent-Garden, OCLC 79823736; cited in Melvin Santer, Confronting Contagion: Our Evolving Understanding of Disease, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-935635-5, page 115",
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          "ref": "1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132",
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