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Carious. World English Historical Dictionary

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Carious. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Carious a. [ad. F. carieux (16th c. in Paré), or L. cariōs-us, f. cariēs: see -OUS.]

1   1.  Pathol. Of bones, teeth, etc.: Affected with caries, decayed.

2 1676.  Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., IV. iv. 309. Finding the Bone carious.

3 1789.  W. Buchan, Dom. Med., 357. A rotten or carious tooth.

4 1831.  Youatt, Horse, viii. (1847), 202. Carious or hollow teeth are occasionally … seen.

5   2.  transf. Decayed; rotten with dry rot.

6 1530.  Test. Ebor. (Surtees), 295. My cariouse bodye to be beride in the Trenyte qweir.

7 1832.  Veg. Subst. Food, 49. The … carious grains are … often housed with the sound grain.

8 1842.  Blackw. Mag., LI. 286. Fire racing along the old carious timbers.

9 1848.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. Pref. 37. The earth yields and crumbles beneath his foot … for its substance is white, hollow, and carious.

10   Hence Cariousness.

11 1818.  Art Preserv. Feet, 116. A cariousness which has rendered the amputation of one or more toes … necessary.

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