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[NIE-dahs] 
1. a nest, especially one functioning as a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, spiders, or other small animals: "The nidus of the ant colony functions in much same way as a human village, with complex social dependencies and a sense of safety in numbers."
2. (as in pathology) a breeding place, especially the central point where parasites, bacteria, or germs of a disease are lodged or developed: "We'll have to attack the nidus of the infection with antibiotics."
adjective form: nidal
Origin:
Approximately 1745; from Latin, 'nidus': nest. In Action:
"He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the solidarity of mankind."
George Eliot (1819-1880). Pseudonym of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, English novelist. 'MiddleMarch,' (1872). | |
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