"nauseous" redux

[Benjamin Zimmer]

A few years ago I did some antedating on "nauseous" in the sense of
"affected by nausea" (the bane of prescriptivists):

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0501b&L=ads-l&P=318

The 1885 cite I gave is now in OED3, but Gabe Doyle of the Motivated Grammar
blog has antedated that all the way back to 1855, as I discuss in my latest
Word Routes column:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1762/


--Ben Zimmer

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