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caus⋅tic

   [kaw-stik]
–adjective
1. capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
2. severely critical or sarcastic: a caustic remark.
–noun
3. a caustic substance.
4. Optics.
a. caustic curve.
b. caustic surface.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L causticus < Gk kaustikós burning, caustic, equiv. to kaust(ós) burnt (v. adj. of kaíein to burn) + -ikos -ic
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Causticness

Caus"tic*ness\, n. The quality of being caustic; causticity.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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