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cankerous, a.|ˈkæŋkərəs|
Forms: 6–8 cancrous, 7 cankrous, -ckerous, -carous, 7– cankerous.
[f. canker n. + -ous, after It. cancheroso, F. chancreux.]
1. Of the nature of a canker, or eating sore; cancerous, gangrenous.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. iii. 18 The begynnynge of cancrous corruption. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 390 Cankrous vlcers of the mouth. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Malanders, Being a sharp Salve, it will kill the canckerous Humour.
†b. Rusty, like rust. Obs.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋160 A canckerous and æruginous quality.
c. Of the nature of canker or blight in plants.
a1866B. Taylor Vineyard Saint Poems (1866) 206 The vines were brown with cankerous rust. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. xi. 196 Cankerous blight, fruit-withering.
†2. Affected with canker; in a state of decay.
1609W. M. Man in Moone in Halliw. Charac. Bks. (1857) 99 Your flesh, rotten; your bones, cankerous.
3. Having the qualities of a canker; eating into the flesh; corroding; infectious.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 17 A Cancarous and Corroding substance. 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poems 1850 I. 186 These cankerous fetters.
4. fig.
1620Dekker Dreame (1860) 18 Cank'rous enuy. a1734North Exam. iii. vi. ⁋36. 450 His Words are cancrous, and fall as Excrements. 1735Thomson Liberty iv. 50 Tyrannick rule..whose cancrous shackles seiz'd The envenom'd soul. 1881Mrs. Praed Policy & P. I. 100 A cankerous regret. |