Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

احرضهُ

Root: حرض

Form: 4

Full Definition

احرضهُIV It pressed heavily upon him; or clave to him constantly: it caused him to be at the point of death; as also : it corrupted, or disordered, his body, so that he became on the brink of death. It caused him to be sick, or diseased. It corrupted, or disordered, him.
2 He corrupted, vitiated, marred, or destroyed, it; namely, a thing; as also حرّضهُ : and he annulled it; rendered it null, or void. You say also, نَفَْسَهُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun حَرْضٌ, He corrupted, or vitiated, or destroyed, himself, or his own soul: and احرض نَفْسَهُ he destroyed himself, or his own soul, by telling a lie. And سُوْءُ حَمْلِ الفَاقَةِ يُحْرِضُ الحَسَبَ, occurring in a saying of Aktham Ibn-Seyfee, means The ill-bearing of poverty annuls the grounds of pretension to respect.

def.2 احرضهُ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ: see 2.

def.3 احرض He begat evil offspring.


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