bdelygmia:
condemnation by expressions of
revulsion. This is one of the stranger
rhetorical terms that has survived into
English from
Classical Greek.
But the bd- initial is not so strange in Greek. For one thing, it is simply the voiced correspondent of pt-, which is not unusual. And I have managed to dredge up a few other words with the same first two letters; all seem to have meanings relatable to nausea:
There are two others that may be related:
- bdella: leech
- bdalsis: suction