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单词 mormal
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mormaln.

Brit. /ˈmɔːml/, /ˈmɔːmal/, U.S. /ˈmɔrm(ə)l/, /ˈmɔrˌmæl/
Forms: Middle English marymole, Middle English mormaile, Middle English mormol, Middle English mormole, Middle English 1600s morimal, Middle English–1500s mortmale, Middle English–1600s mormale, Middle English–1600s mormall, Middle English–1600s mormalle, Middle English– mormal, 1500s marmoll, 1500s marmolle, 1500s mermole, 1500s–1600s marmole, 1600s marmall, 1600s mortmal.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mormal.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mormal and Old French mormal, mortmal (beginning of 14th cent.) < mort death + mal bad; compare earlier malemort malemorte n.
Now historical.
1. A sore or ulcer, usually with a dry crust or scab, found esp. on the legs. Also figurative. Now historical.Probably used non-specifically; the description in quot. 1543 suggests ecthyma or impetigo.
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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
c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 386 Greet harm was it..That on his shyne a mormal [v.r. marymole] hadde he.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 178 Þe blood-letyng of þis veyne is good..for cancrena þat ben in þe hipis & for a mormal.
c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 230 Also ij men haue bene helede þere of þe morimal.
c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 214 Ȝyf mormal be wasche wyþ þe water þat aded mon was y wasche wyþ, hyt schal drye hyt vp.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 39 He can hele and cure..mormale.
a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 247 Luxiria is a lither mormale.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiv Some with the marmoll to halte I them make.
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. ii. x. f. cxlii To hele ye foule marmole of theyr skabbed shynnys.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. v. f. 164/1 Of the deed euyll, or mortmale. The deed euyl..is a maligne, fylthy, and corrupt scabbe, which begynneth for ye most part in ye armes, thyghes & legges, & chefly in the legges it causeth crusty pustles, ful of fylthy matter.
c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) ii. iv. sig. Dv The festred and stinking Cores of olde marmolles and inueterate sores of the weale publique.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 41 For Festers, Mermoles, sores of the yard, and all other sores, take Ash [etc.].
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 588 Such morimals or sores as scorne ordinary cures & be full of suppuration.
1616 B. Jonson Mercurie Vindicated in Wks. I. 1006 They will giue him a quantity of the quintessence, shall serue him to cure kibes, or the mormall o'the shinne.
1741 G. Ogle Canterbury Tales I. 25 A Mormal on his Shin had taken Place; And sorely griev'd.
1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) II. 42 Mormal, a bile or sore of a virulent nature.
1925 Mod. Lang. Notes 40 2 There is hardly room for argument about the fact that..even local and personal allusions were introduced [in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales] to an astonishing degree,—perhaps in such cases as..the very mormal on the Cook's shin.
1955 Mod. Lang. Notes 70 323 Summarizing the authorities, a mormal (malum mortuum) is caused by ‘uncleanly personal habits.., and by disgraceful association with diseased and filthy women’.
1992 J. H. Fisher Importance of Chaucer iii. 96 The illustrator of the Ellesmere manuscript..to insure that the observer would not miss the reference..bandaged the Cook's ‘mormal’ like a major wound, and gilded the Miller's thumb and Physician's flask.
2. Perhaps: a hangnail. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of nails > [noun]
wartwalec1325
flaw1574
liverage1598
pterygium1601
hangnail1678
mormal1685
agnail1737
onychia1814
defluvium1817
onychogryphosis1833
liver-sick1836
ingrowing1852
backfriend1864
onychomycosis1865
white lie1899
koilonychia1902
1685 J. Cooke's Marrow Chirurg. (ed. 4) i. xi. 75 There are also little Marmoles, so called by some, which are little bits of the Skin that rise near to the Nails.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mormaladj.

Perhaps a mistaken inference from mormal n.
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mormal, grievous, dangerous. (Obs.).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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