exitial

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin exitialis, exitious, from exitium (a going out).

Adjective[edit]

exitial (comparative more exitial, superlative most exitial)

  1. (obsolete) destructive; fatal
    • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
      exitial fevers

Synonyms[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exitial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)