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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. x. 202 They prevent..putrescence of humors. View more context for this quotation

1783 S. Johnson Let. 22 Sept. (1994) IV. 205 You would not have me for fear of pain perish in putrescence.

1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 165 As soon as a great degree of putrescence has taken place, the luminous property of the fishes is destroyed.

1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 197 [Preserved Meats] How did this putrescence arise?

1903 S. Rideal Disinfection & Preservation Food ii. 24 Sandy deserts show frequent remains of animals dried and free from putrescence.

1955 L. Edel Psychological Novel vii. 79 The range from decay and decomposition to putrescence.

1992 B. Wood Lost Prince (BNC) 140 There was a stench now; rotting flesh, warm cooking meat, corpses oozing decay and filth and dissolving into putrescence.

1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 80 Muntingus..stops and cures all Putrescences, as St Anthony's Fire, Herpes, Phagenedics, Gangrenes, etc.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. x. 256 Nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip-manure.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 2/3 The sanitary inspector described one of the lots as ‘perished, diseased, and rotten’... Is the only penalty possible the carting away of the putrescence and the burying of it at the bottom of the sea?

1957 R. Levy Social Struct. Islam x. 493 In the perfect class [of animal] are included those which have sexual congress..and suckle their young; in the imperfect class are those which originate in putrescences.

1999 G. Rabassa tr. J. M. M. De Assis Quincas Borba 14 Hygiene is the offspring of century-old putrescences. We owe it to millions of cases of corruption and infection.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 219 The European World was asking him: Am I to sink ever lower into falsehood, stagnant putrescence, loathsome accursed death?

1865 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 141 A putrescence through the constitution of the people is indicated by this galled place.

1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 2 Jan. (1988) I. 431 I will agree with you in anything you care to say about..the putrescence of English literature and journalism.

1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxiv. 278 All raw and brash and ugly, but underneath is the putrescence and the softness and the falling apart like rotten cheese.

1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xvii. 435 The putrescence of communism tells us again that cultural meaning is primary.