Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Noxious

Noxious , adjective

[Latin noxius, from noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Compare Nuisance, Necromancy.]

1.
Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. — Swift
2.
Guilty; criminal. [Rare]
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. — Abp. Bramhall