deletery

adjective /dəˈliːtəɹi/

1. Destructive, poisonous

   obsolete

   Nor engine, nor device polemic, / Disease, nor doctor epidemic, / Tho' stored with deletery med'cines, / Which whosoever took is dead since, / E'er sent so vast a colony / To both the under worlds as he.

Where it comes from

From New Latin dēlētērius, from Ancient Greek δηλητήρῐος (dēlētḗrĭos). Doublet of deleterious.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry deletery (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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