cacoethic

Adjective

cacoethic (comparative more cacoethic, superlative most cacoethic)

1. Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethical.
   • From Nature's womb vitality will burst / Upon the optic and all other nerves, / To make us stare with wonder at ourselves. / The valetudinarian thus will learn / One cacoëthic cause of all his woe.1833, John Borthwick Gilchrist, A Practical Appeal to the Public, through a Series of Letters, in Defence of the New System of Physic by the Illustrious [Samuel] Hahnemann; [...]: Letter the First...
   • Henry Vaughan's charming "Upon a Cloke Lent Him by Mr. J. Ridsley," […] has been variously described as a macabre performance, phantasmagoric dream, or Democritean jest, but not to my knowledge as an anti-ode without strophe or antistrophe whose subject is an object, or, rather, the subject...2009, Robert G. Eisenhauer, Ode Consciousness [Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature; 100], New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 2
2. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to a cacoethes (a malignant tumour or ulcer).
   • Now theſe two Parts of Surgery I ſhould have inlarged more upon, being they are notable branches of our Art, as well as Wounds, Fractures, and Luxations, but time permitted not. Several of them that proceed from Wounds and Contuſions, and ſome from Plethory and Choller, I have touched upon already...1702, John Moyle, Chirurgus Marinus: or, the Sea-Chirurgion …, 4th, newly corr. and inlarged edition, London: Printed for E[benezer] Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, and S. Burrowes, at...
   • Take red Lead two Ounces, diſtill'd Vinegar two Pounds, digeſt for many Days; this Liquor being diſtill'd is us'd for a Fomentation in cacoethic Ulcers, call'd Nomæ, Phagædænica.1727, Edward Strother, Materia Medica: or, A New Description of the Virtues and Effects of all Drugs, or Simple Medicines now in Use [...] Done from the Latin Original of Dr. Paul Harman, Late...