Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OB-NOX'IOUS, a. [L. obnoxius; ob and noxius, hurtful, from noceo.]

1. Subject; answerable. The writings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon.
2. Liable; subject to cognizance or punishment. We know ourselves obnoxious to God's severe justice. Calamy.
3. Liable; exposed; as, friendship obnoxious to jealousies. Hayward.
4. Reprehensible; censurable; not approved; as, obnoxious authors. Fell.
5. Odious; hateful; offensive; with to; as, the minister was obnoxious to the whigs.
6. Hurtful; noxious. Milton.