Pedicular

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to lice. not-comparable

    "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 […] [)]"

  2. 2
    Caused by lice. not-comparable

    "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 […]"

  3. 3
    Having the lousy distemper, phthiriasis; infested with lice. not-comparable

    "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."

  4. 4
    Relating to a stem or pedicle. not-comparable

Etymology

From Latin pedicularis, from pediculus (“louse”). Compare French pédiculaire.

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