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▪ I. † ˈulcerate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. ulcerātus, pa. pple. of ulcerāre: see next. So It. ulcerato, Sp. and Pg. ulcerado, F. ulcéré.]
Ulcerated. Also fig.
a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 2 Bothe his buttokis was so vlcerat and putrefied with-in. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A iv, For the mystemperaunce of y⊇ flesshe vlcerate, or for the gatheryng of humours. 1609[Bp. W. Barlow] Answ. Nameless Cath. 104 Vlcerate Apostemes must be launced. 1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Wars Flanders 367 So the ulcerate part of Flanders makes the body of your whole Empire daily languish. 1720W. Gibson Diet. Horses i. (1726) 17 When the Cornet is large, it denotes an over-great Relaxation and Moisture in that Part, which is apt to turn ulcerate.
▪ II. ulcerate, v.|ˈʌlsəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. ulcerāre (whence It. ulcerare, Sp. and Pg. ulcerar, F. ulcérer), f. ulcer-, ulcus ulcer n.: see -ate.]
1. intr. To form an ulcer; to break out into ulcers or purulent sores; to fester.
a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 37 Þis sikenes lurkeþ wiþ in þe lure in þe bigynnyng, but after processe of tyme it vlcerate, & fretyng þe lure goþe out. 1623Cockeram, Vlcerate, to blister, to breake out into sores. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 45 The Tonsils, says he, are often exposed to ulcerate. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 387 A part never ulcerates till it has become inflamed. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 190 Inflaming the whole swelling, and causing it to ulcerate and slough. 1898Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. IX. 313 The patches do not ulcerate or inflame.
fig.1833I. Taylor Fanat. ii. 49 When an affection, more sensitive than any other, is left to bleed and ulcerate in open air. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 154 More than a house may bear, whose wounds yet bleed, And ulcerate from the fangs of fate.
2. trans. To cause ulcers in or on.
c1550H. Lloyd Treas. Health 5 Sinapismus is an em⁓plaster made of mustard to vlcerate the skynne & make the same red. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Vlcerate, to make full of sores, to blister. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vii. 249 When signs of a Gangrene begin to appear..we must ulcerate the parts..with deep scarifications. 1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 149 If either the stalks or leaves of this valuable plant are applied to the skin, they heat and ulcerate it. 1788Med. Commun. II. 208 The discharge..excoriates or ulcerates the membrane. 1843Youatt Horse (ed. 2) i. 14 The fetlock would be chafed and ulcerated, if the horse was ridden over ploughed grounds.
3. fig. To affect after the manner of an ulcer; to irritate; to wound or poison.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxiv. 214 Wherein the King dealt with a tender hand, as if he feared to ulcerate any part, and especially the Clergy. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 656 By knowing the true place of the wound, we shall prevent its ulcerating the mind herself. 1792Burke Let. to Sir H. Langrishe Wks. VI. 362 The only reason which can be assigned for this disfranchisement, has a tendency more deeply to ulcerate their minds than the act of exclusion itself. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 46 A small knot of Roman Catholics whose hearts had been ulcerated by old injuries. Ibid. vii. II. 255 When her heart had been ulcerated by disasters and mortifications. 1879Farrar St. Paul viii, To brand consciences, already ulcerated by a sense of guilt. |