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rotted, ppl. a.|ˈrɒtɪd|
Also 3 roted, 4–5 rotid, -yd(e, 5 rooted, -yd.
[f. rot v. + -ed1.]
1. That has undergone, or passed into a state of, decay or putrefaction.
a1225Ancr. R. 84 Yet wolde he teteren & pileken, mid his bile, roted stinkinde fleshs. 1340Ayenb. 205 A roted eppel amang þe holen makeþ rotie þe yzounde. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Febris putrida, roted feuer, haþ þat name of roted humoures of the whiche it is ibredde. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 86 Þouȝ þat þou clense þe rotid boon wiþ schauynge. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. iv. §14 (1689) 45 The body of a rotted alder. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 130 These have always their Habitation in shady moist Places, chiefly in rotted Wood. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 282 The manure..was rotted dung, turned over and prepared for the purpose. 1855Carlyle in E. FitzGerald's Lett. (1889) I. 235 All the horrors of a half rotted ship. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 78 The dead and rotted roots of the rasamala-trees were allowed to remain.
2. spec. Of sheep: Affected by the rot.
1837Youatt Sheep xi. 450 The liver of a rotted sheep. 1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sci., etc. s.v. Rot, This difference..occasions some rotted sheep to thrive well..to a certain stage, when they suddenly fall off.
Hence † ˈrottedness, rottenness. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Þey haue reste in here rotednes and in filþe. Ibid., Slyme..of rotednes þat is vpon þe water. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 433/2 To scrape away the rottedness of the Cranium. |