difficile

[ dif-i-seel; French dee-fee-seel ]

adjective

Origin of difficile

1470–80; <French <Latin difficilis difficult; see dif-, facile

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Clostridioides difficile bacteria are notorious for taking over the guts of people who have taken antibiotics to treat other infections.
A chain mail–like armor may shield C. difficile from some antibiotics | Erin Garcia de Jesús | February 25, 2022 | Science News
To support the hologenome theory, Rosenberg and others look to the study of the human microbiome, particularly the example of Clostridium difficile.
When Evolution Is Infectious - Issue 90: Something Green | Moises Velasquez-Manoff | September 30, 2020 | Nautilus
Jonas: La baleine fut la fin oblige de le vomir tant un Prophte est un morceau difficile digrer.
Baron d'Holbach | Max Pearson Cushing
"Très jolie plante, mais d'une culture difficile" (Vilmorin).
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
Flaubert devait beaucoup Chateaubriand: il serait difficile de nommer le matre des Goncourt.
Instigations | Ezra Pound

Vous n'avez qu' dire: rien ne me sera difficile' (June 1694).
Popular Tales | Charles Perrault
difficile est animum perducere ad contemtionem anim: and 58.
Dderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes | Ludwig Dderlein

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