† undercotv.
Scottish. Obsolete.
intransitive. To suppurate or fester inwardly.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > suppurate [verb (intransitive)]
whealc1000
rank?a1300
ranklec1330
festera1400
putrefya1400
quittera1400
suppure?a1425
to come to a head1566
undercot1591
suppurate1615
youster1691
digest1722
maturate1726
1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. sig. T2v The outwarde scroofe, suppose it appeareth to be whole where the inward is festered auaileth nothing, bot maketh it to vndercoate again.
1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith ii. 30 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) To Medciners, the medcine vailed not; So sore the poisond plague did vndercot.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) i. cxl. 275 These..cannot have but such a peace with God, as will undercot and break the flesh again.
1669 R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. 124 Too soon letting out of a sore, may cause it undercot, and gather new matter.
1727 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Semple, Welwood & Cameron 76 A slight Way of Healing indeed, which now is undercotted, and seems to be incurable.
Derivatives
underˈcotted adj.
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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
1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 315 I finde old sores bleeding of new; so dangerous..is an undercotted conscience.
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
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 222 My dumb sabbaths are undercotting wounds.
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