misocapnist

plural misocapnists

1. rareOne who hates tobacco smoke.

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   He was followed by a disputatious gentleman, who had the temerity to maintain before the royal misocapnist (the Counterblast had not as yet issued from the monarch's lips, but his anti-nicotian prejudices were well known,) the thesis, that "tobacco must needs be good;" proceeding to his proof "by enumeration or induction, because Kings, Princes, Nobles, Earles, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen of all Countries and Nations, reckoning a number, loved it."

   1864, “Visit of King James to Oxford in 1605: Tobacologia: Date of "Macbeth"”, in Notes and Queries

   The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the "Pipe-Plot," with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the "Death of Walter the Doubter," where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!

   1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert, →ISBN

comparative more misocapnist · superlative most misocapnist

1. nonstandardpossiblyHating tobacco smoke.

   As smoking in misocapnist North America is declining, cigarettes are cheap and plentiful in Korea.

   2003, K. Lee Washington, A Jewel Amid the Yellow Dust - K.O.R.E.A., →ISBN, page 68

   Synonyms: misocapnic