单词 | putredinous |
释义 | putredinousadj. Now rare. Characterized or caused by putrefaction; putrid; (figurative) rotten; abominable; morally corrupt. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > caused by corruption or putridness putredinal1574 putredinous1708 pythogenic1858 pythogenetic1863 1641 C. Burges Another Serm. House of Commons 60 All putredinous vermine of bold Schismaticks and frantick Sectaries glory in her ashes. 1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. iii. i. 292 The Animal, which thirsting after his like spirituall celestiall food..doth unawares draw in an enemy with it, namely, a pestilent and corrupt fume, whereby it is oppressed and inflamed with a putredinous fire. 1708 Brit. Apollo 9–11 June From Putredinous Humours this ill doth proceed. 1711 G. Cary Physician's Phylactic 209 Most Putredinous Sectaries. 1746 R. James Mod. Pract. Physic II. 272 In this case we are to have recourse to such medicines as promote suppuration, at the same time that they prevent a putredinous corruption. 1775 G. Chandler Treat. Cataract ii. 16 Sometimes the dissolution becomes putredinous, but without pus. 1914 G. P. Rutledge Center Shots at Rome v. 117 Mr. Rutledge read a scathing letter he had received...The letter contained...such compliments as...‘your horrible, putredinous breath’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1641 |
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