cacoethical

== English == === Alternative forms === cacoëthical === Etymology === From cacoethes +‎ -ical. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌkakəʊˈiːθɪk(ə)l/ Hyphenation: ca‧co‧e‧thic‧al === Adjective === cacoethical (comparative more cacoethical, superlative most cacoethical) Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethic. 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, Founded Epicurus, Repaired by Petrus Gassendus, Augmented Walter Charleton, Dr. in Medicine, and Physician to the Late Charles, Monarch of Great-Britain. The First Part. [Second Part never published], London: Printed by Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Thomas Heath, and are to be sold at his shop in Russel-street, neer the Piazza of Covent-Garden, OCLC 79823736; cited in Melvin Santer, Confronting Contagion: Our Evolving Understanding of Disease, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-935635-5, page 115: To lance and cleanſe this Cacoethical Ulcer, to the bottom, Conſider we, that the General Laws of Nature, whereby ſhe produceth All Effects, by the Action of one and Paſſion of another thing, […] ==== Synonyms ==== cacoethic ==== Derived terms ==== cacoethically ==== Related terms ==== cacoethes