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animalculous

adj

Etymology

From animalcule + -ous.

  1. derived from *h₂enh₁-✻ — “to breathe”
  2. derived from animal — “animal; living creature”
  3. learned borrowing from animalculum — “lowly or small animal”
  4. suffixed as animalculous — “animalcule + ous”

Definitions

  1. Relating to animalcules.

    • Like the blue on a plumb, are but Inſects you know, / A mere Animalculous Duſt
    • now an anthelminthic is any thing that will deſtroy worms and animalculous vermin; that is to ſay, it will deſtroy life in minute animals
    • I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; / I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;

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