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ulcerous, a.|ˈʌlsərəs|
[ad. L. ulcerōs-us, f. ulcer-, ulcus ulcer n. Hence also It., Sp., Pg. ulceroso, F. ulcéreux, -euse (1554), Da. ulcerøs.]
1. Of the nature of an ulcer or ulcers; forming a purulent sore.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 144 The vlcerous places must be nointed with Vinegar. 1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 43 For my gluttony, I suffer hunger:..for my adulterie, vlcerous sores. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 97 Honie..being applied to a sore or ulcerous place, at the first doth smart and sting. 1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 39 Shee, whom the Spittle-house, and vlcerous sores, Would cast the gorge at. 1744Berkeley Siris §21 In obstructions and ulcerous erosions of the inward parts. 1752― Th. Tar-water Wks. 1871 III. 499 Good against ulcerous eruptions. 1789A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. (1805) IV. 42 Their lips began to break out in watery and ulcerous blisters. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 279 The disease is curable..after the softening of the tubercles and the formation of an ulcerous excavation. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 886 In some instances the foreign bodies had escaped from the appendix through the ulcerous openings they had made in its walls.
fig.1601[? Marston] Pasquil & Kath. v. 20 Why, now the vlcerous swelling of my hate Is broken forth. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. iii, The polluting filth Of ulcerous sinne.
2. Afflicted with an ulcer or ulcers; exhibiting ulceration.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum., The Stage 73 Euery seruile imitating spirit..striues to fling His vlc'rous body in the Thespian spring, And streight leaps forth a Poet. 1600R. Cawdrey Treasurie 266 Scuruie, Scabbie, and vlcerous persons. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 151 Strangely visited people All swolne and Vlcerous..he cures. 1662Hibbert Body Divinity I. 313 They observed..whether the bowels were of an unnatural colour, or ulcerous. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 105 Cavities resulting from their destruction present irregular, anfractuous, ragged and ulcerous walls.
absol.1889H. M. Stanley in Stanley & Africa xvii. (1890) 392 Assiduously dressing and trimming up the ulcerous ready for the march to Zanzibar.
b. fig. (Cf. ulcerated ppl. a. 1 b.)
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §20 A weauer (the Bailiffe of the Towne) was the vlcerous head, to which that corruption gathered. 1643Milton Divorce ii. iii. Wks. 1851 IV. 65 Did God for this come down..to patch up an ulcerous and rott'n commonwealth with strict and stern injunctions? 1660T. M. C. Walker's Hist. Independ. iv. 22 Belching forth the scandalous language of their ulcerous tongues to incense the People. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. x. v. (1881) 494 A just man would crush with his foot such an ulcerous ant-hill!
3. Developed in, proceeding from, ulcers.
1660O. Sedgwick in Spurgeon Treas. David Ps. xix. 12 Methinks sin is..like evil and ulcerous humours. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 121 Ulcerous Exudations, which by their loose situations are easily carried along with the Medicine. 1844G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) II. 311 By reason of some colouring ulcerous matter, the skin of the sufferer would pass through the different successive shades of dark red and lead colour and complete black.
4. Characteristic of, appropriate to, ulcers.
1641in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) iii. I. 218, I cannot but admire how this..Body of Judicature should swell up into such a vast and ulcerous dimension. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. iii. xiv. (1721) 268/2 To dry up watry Corruptions, which create an ulcerous Disposition in the Legs. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 13 Thrice ten years, Thrice multiplied by superhuman pangs,..In coughs,..ulcerous throes and cramps. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 127 The development of ulcerous conditions when the process affects free surfaces.
5. = ulcerated ppl. a. 3.
1751Fothergill (title), Account of the Ulcerous Sore Throat. 1761Phil. Trans. LII. 264 His disorder has been a malignant or ulcerous sore throat. 1859Semple Diphtheria 84 Severe and obstinate ulcerous inflammations of the skin and mucous tissue. 1889Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) xxii. 189 A disease exactly resembling the acute ulcerous stomatitis of children.
Hence ˈulcerously adv.; ˈulcerousness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Ulcerousness, ulcerous State, Condition, or Quality. 1847Webster, Ulcerously. |