单词 | festering |
释义 | festeringn. The action of fester v. (in various senses); an instance or result of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] festeringa1400 maturation?a1425 rankling?a1425 suppuration?a1425 whealingc1440 mattering?c1450 rancouring1567 suppurating1589 resolution1598 empyema1655 pyosis1684 pyogenesis1848 assimilation1864 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer cankereOE rankle?c1190 fester?c1225 gutefestre?c1225 malemorte1341 mormalc1387 red gownc1400 ulcerc1400 fistula?a1425 esthiomene?1541 fret1545 exulceration1551 phagedaena1567 sycosis1580 ulceration1580 run1648 ulcuscle1794 festering1804 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 222 (MED) Kepe wel þe place þat is open fro festrynge. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 158 Feestrynge of wowndys, cicatricatio. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Fj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Vlceres that come nat to festring. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §4 What can ensue, but a festering of the part? 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxii. 137 No fear of a wound's rankling or festering by so delicate a point. 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 98 It appears more like a common festering produced by a thorn. 1913 Farmers' Bull. (Dept. Agric. New S. Wales) No. 67 14 In very few cases was festering noticeable. 2012 Social Scientist 40 58 The failure to bring perpetrators of the worst atrocities to justice may lead to the festering of helpless rage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). festeringadj. 1. Of a wound, sore, part of the body, etc.: ulcerating, suppurating. Also: putrefying; rotting. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] fouleOE festereda1398 quitterya1398 quittorousa1398 festrya1400 purulent?a1425 suppurate?a1425 matterativec1487 mattereda1500 mattery1527 attery1535 sanious1562 festering1563 matterish1566 infestered1570 ulcerated1580 suppurated1583 sordid1597 corsie1605 fistulating1607 rankling1631 suppurable1634 rancorous1635 undercotted1636 undercotting1637 suppuratory1659 puriform1668 quittorish1668 suppurating1671 scandalous1676 suppurative1746 suppurant1799 gleety1822 puruloid1846 pyoid1846 colloid substance1849 peptic1884 pussy1888 maturable1889 fretty1894 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adjective] > making festering1563 rancouring1567 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. C.i Tyme shall heale, thy festryng wound. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. I8v Inward corruption, and infected sin..And festring sore did ranckle yett within. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. iii. 5 Lest from their festering Teeth a Gangrin grow. 1806 R. Wilson in H. Randolph Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) I. App. ix. 375 They are daily obliged to pass their festering comrades; whose carcases are exposed to be mangled by the vultures and the dogs. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xi. 266 Draining off the sour festering water. 1929 E. A. Powell Last Home of Myst. ii. 48 My garments were clutched by the skinny talons of a creature whose naked body was a mass of festering ulcers. 2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 11 Sept. (Sports section) 9/5 Oh, those gnarly, festering feet: bunioned and blistered, callused and corned. 2. figurative. Designating a persistently harmful or corrupting influence. Now usually of a negative feeling, a problem, etc.: growing worse or more intense over time, esp. as a result of long-term neglect or indifference. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [verb (transitive)] ranklec1487 infester1570 festering1615 rancour1654 verjuice1848 out-sharpen1864 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adjective] > making festering1615 rancouring1814 1615 E. Weston Triall Christian Truth: 2nd Pt. xxv. sig. Zv Sinne, the death of the soule, the festering corruption thereof. 1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule iv. i. 1707 My festring sorrows smart. 1865 U.S. Service Mag. May 446 There is always a festering quarrel between them that is continually breaking out into brawls and fights. 1922 F. Hackett Story of Irish Nation ix. 254 The festering issues created by conquest and confiscation. 1977 H. Fast Immigrants iv. 263 To Sarah, Hollywood was a festering sink of sin and corruption. 2008 Church Times 7 Mar. 14/1 An anarchy of festering resentment loosed upon this green and pleasant land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400adj.1563 |
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