zootichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zootic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezootic, adj.
Revised 2017

zooticadjective

  1. 1.
    1816–
    zootic acid noun
    Now rare or disused. Hydrogen cyanide, prussic acid.
    1. 1816
      Zootic acid..has lately been announced as a new poison.
      G. E. Male, Epitome Juridical or Forensic Medicine 189
    2. 1868
      Zootic Acid, syn. with Hydrocyanic Acid.
      H. Watts, Dictionary of Chemistry vol. V. 1085
    3. 1905
      What is the difference between Zootic Acid and Azotic Acid?
      J. N. Clark, Course in Pharmacy 184
    4. 2005
      Prussic acid;..Zootic acid; Zyklon B. Present in apricot and peach pits in low concentrations, extremely toxic.
      G.W.A. Milne, Gardner's Commercially Important Chemicals 529/1
  2. 2.
    1818–
    Originally: of or relating to animals; spec. designating a disease occurring in animals. In later use: designating a disease which can be transmitted naturally from animals to humans; = zoonotic adj.
    1. 1818
      It is with pleasure we find Zootic Medicine more generally cultivated. The diseases of horses are for the most part simple and better understood.
      London Medical & Physical Journal vol. 39 5
    2. 1851
      Epidemic zootic diseases have..ravaged the cattle of many countries from the earliest period of history.
      H. Stephens, Farmer's Guide vol. II. 178/2
    3. 1899
      Zoötic diseases communicable to man.
      British Medical Journal 6 May 1094/1
    4. 1942
      Zootic’, typhus fevers are of minor importance as war diseases.
      British Medical Journal 3 October 401/
    5. 1998
      Persons who have regular contact with wild rodents or their fleas in areas in which there is zootic plague.
      J. D. Poland & D. T. Dennis in A. S. Evans & P. S. Brachman, Bacterial Infections of Humans (ed. 3) xxvii. 556/1
    6. 2008
      When you look at new and emerging diseases many are zootic and passable from animals to man.
      Times 21 April 21/1
  3. 3.
    1824–34
    † Geology. Containing the remains of living organisms. Obsolete.
    1. 1824
      Variolite..Principal varieties..Zootic..Portions of entrochi mixed with the calcareous nodules.
      H. T. De la Beche, translation of A. Brongniart in Select. Geol. Mem. Annales des Mines p. xv
    2. 1830
      It is not necessary..to explain how these different species of fossils have been formed, in localities of different degrees of antiquity, from the oldest zootic strata, to those which are being formed daily under our actual inspection.
      E. Pidgeon, Fossil Remains Animal Kingdom 382
    3. 1834
      Spilites with crystalline geodes and nodules, sometimes zootic.
      W. Ainsworth, Caves Ballybunian 69

zootic, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zootic, adj. was last modified in July 2023.