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putrefied, ppl. a.|ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪd|
[f. putrefy + -ed1.]
1. Rendered putrid; rotten.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 202 b, Many other beestes and wormes be gendred of the erth onely, or other putrefyed matter. a1640J. Ball Answ. to Canne ii. (1642) 55 As rotten and putrified stuffe to be cast out. 1724R. Welton Chr. Faith & Pract. 359 Their hearts are filthy and corrupt like those putrefied carcasses. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 370 The dung..is still to be considered as vegetables in a putrefied state.
¶2. U.S. dial. A malapropism for ‘petrified’.
1848G. F. Ruxton in Blackw. Mag. June 714/2 ‘I've seen a putrefied forest.’ ‘La, Mister Harris, a what?’ ‘A putrefied forest, marm.’ Ibid. 715/1 ‘I shows him the piece I chipped out of the tree, and he called it a putrefaction too; and so, marm, if that wasn't a putrefied peraira, what was it?’ 1896‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Sept. 536/2 Jubiter..was just fairly putrefied with astonishment. |