cankerousadj.

Brit.

/ˈkaŋk(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈkæŋk(ə)rəs/

Forms: late Middle English cancrose, late Middle English cancrouse, late Middle English–1700s cancrous, late Middle English– cankerous, 1500s cankerus, 1500s–1600s cancarous, 1500s–1600s cankrous, 1600s canckrous, 1600s (1800s– English regional) cank'rous, 1600s–1700s canckerous, 1800s– cankris (English regional).

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French cancreux, chancreux; Latin cancerosus.

Etymology: Probably partly < Middle French cancreux, cancrous, variant of chancreux affected by ulceration or cancer (1314 in Old French; < chancre (see canker n.) + -eux -ous suffix, after post-classical Latin cancerosus , cancrosus ), and partly < post-classical Latin cancerosus, cancrosus (see cancerous adj.). Compare Old Occitan cancros (14th cent.; Occitan cancerós ), Catalan cancerós (c1400), Spanish canceroso (c1250; also as †cancroso ), Italian cancheroso (a1561; earlier as †cancroso (first half of 14th cent.); also as canceroso ). Compare earlier cankered adj., cankery adj., and also cancerous adj.

1. Affected with or of the nature of canker or a canker (see canker n. 1); of or relating to (a) canker. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > of nature of necrosis

cankerya1398

cankerousc1425

putrid?1551

gangrenous1597

gangrened1762

necrobiotic1860

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) 81 Ane oyntment þat availeþ to cancrose vlcerez, and to wondez, and to apostemez.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 16 An helpynge chapitre of a cancrouse [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. cancrous] aposteme.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 115^v (MED) Þat þe cours of þe Cankerous humouris weren drawen þerto.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 17^v/2 The begynnyng of cancrous corruption.

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 60 And for Cankerous Ulcers of the yarde..the lotions aforesayd, are praise worthy.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxxv. 500 Cankrous vlcers of the mouth.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xvii. 121 Moreover, Pope Sixtus gave me fifteen hundred francks of yearly pension..for having cured him of a canckrous botch, which did so torment him, that he thought to have been a Cripple by it all his life.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Malanders Being a sharp Salve, it will kill the canckerous Humour.

1795 W. Moorcroft Direct. Portable Horse Med. Chest 19 Thus they are subject to Wounds and Bruises, which are followed by malignant Thrushes, having a disposition to become cankerous.

1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 415 A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, venerealee's flesh, Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous.

1888 I. K. Felch Poultry Culture 154 The sloughing off of the cankerous substance from the tongue and mouth, when the fowl will commence to mend.

1947 W. P. Blount Dis. Poultry 440 Trichomoniasis in the Pigeon.—This is characterised in young pigeons by cankerous lesions of the mouth or oesophagus, and in the U.S.A. is known as ‘canker’.

1981 G. A. Wobeser Dis. Wild Waterfowl xvii. 204 Many Black Ducks collected during a period of ice-induced starvation in Massachusetts had necrotic foci or ‘cankerous sores’ in the esophageal mucosa.

2. figurative. That infects and corrupts, in the manner of (a) canker; affected with (a) canker (see canker n. 4).

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > by gradual or secret means

mining1560

undermining1583

cankerous1599

pioning1609

cancerous1655

sapping1819

1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII Sig. I 1^v So priuy suspition..Breedes great displeasure, and raging cankerus enuie.

1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. C2^v Theeues steale, Warres spoyle, or Cank'rous Enuy blot.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. ⁋36. 450 His Words are cancrous, and fall as Excrements.

1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 50 Tyrannick rule..whose cancrous shackles seiz'd The envenom'd soul.

1796 R. Jephson Conspiracy ii. i. 20 A prey to cankerous regret within, I strive against the feeling which consumes me.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 'Tis the sperm Of what makes life foul, cankerous, and abhorred.

1870 J. P. Robson Evangeline 329 Rank bad foaks wi' cankris harts that ne'er can happy be.

1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 100 A cankerous regret.

1939 E. B. White Camp Meeting in One Man's Meat (1982) 77 They were already buying pretty things, these Methodists, were already paying off old cankerous debts.

1968 Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 21 Oct. 4/2 To him a loveless marriage was typical of the cankerous dishonesty of a sick adult world.

1995 Denver Post 23 Apr. e10/1 South Vietnam was a cankerous stew of religious, political and military enmities.

†3. In a state of decay; rotting. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > dangerously ill

far gone1533

poorly1570

cankerous1609

dangerous1620

cankery1674

à la mort1700

(to be) on the danger list1938

1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. D3 Your flesh rotten, your bones cankerous.

4. Causing canker in plants; of the nature of or characteristic of canker or blight in plants; affected with canker or blight.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having disease caused by insect

cankeredc1522

cankerous1613

cankery1681

scabbed1693

grubbed1843

sedged1844

phylloxerated1879

phylloxerized1881

root-knot1888

stem-sick1890

scaly1894

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. vii. 63 You shall also euery spring and fall of the leafe clense your fruit trees from mosse, which proceeding from a cold and cankerous moisture, breedeth dislike, and barrainenesse in trees.

1768 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) at Sand It either parches or chills too much, and produces nothing but Moss and cankerous infirmities.

a1866 B. Taylor Vineyard Saint in Poems (1866) 206 The vines were brown with cankerous rust.

1894 J. Nisbet Stud. Forestry xiii. 283 The cankerous diseases which belong to this section may be divided into two main groups.

1928 R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. vi. 76 Vigorous trees being left to grow and weakly or cankerous stems being cut out early.

1941 J. S. Karling Plasmodiophorales 129/1 The losses may be quite serious, particularly if the disease is of the cankerous type and is followed by powdery scab dry rot in storage.

2002 Carbohydrate Res. 337 731/2 Eucalyptus trees in South Africa are being threatened by a fungal disease that produces cankerous stem lesions that go into the wood.

5. Affected with rust or verdigris; corroded. Now rare or disused.

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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > corroded > rusty > of the nature of rust

aeruginous?a1425

cankerous1651

cankery1662

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋160 A canckerous and æruginous quality.

1798 R. Southey Love Lang. Colours in J. W. Warter Southey's Common-place Bk. 4th Ser. 88/2 The copper's cankerous verdure.

1840 T. Hood Tylney Hall (rev. ed.) iii. 177 I wouldn't have your precious wounds fester'd and aggravated by cankerous brass candlesticks.

1902 I. G. Penn & J. W. E. Bowen United Negro xx. 408 With alchemic potency the teacher turns the character of the pupil into pure gold or cankerous brass.

6. Having the properties of (a) canker; consuming the flesh; corroding; venomous. Now archaic and rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > cancer

cancerous?a1425

cancerated1589

cancered1629

cankerous1691

carcinomatous1699

carcinomatose1742

cancroid1859

sarcomic1958

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 17 A Cancarous and Corroding substance.

1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 186 These cankerous fetters.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 65 The poor child's got a despert leg throm that car'less wench puttin' the warmin' pan i' the bed—it's sich a nasty cank'rous thing to be burnt ooth.

1927 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 8 Feb. 2/4 Hate has sent its cankerous fangs into the hearts of rulers causing them to declare war.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cankerous
释义	cankerousadj. Brit. /ˈkaŋk(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈkæŋk(ə)rəs/ Forms: late Middle English cancrose, late Middle English cancrouse, late Middle English–1700s cancrous, late Middle English– cankerous, 1500s cankerus, 1500s–1600s cancarous, 1500s–1600s cankrous, 1600s canckrous, 1600s (1800s– English regional) cank'rous, 1600s–1700s canckerous, 1800s– cankris (English regional). Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French cancreux, chancreux; Latin cancerosus. Etymology: Probably partly < Middle French cancreux, cancrous, variant of chancreux affected by ulceration or cancer (1314 in Old French; < chancre (see canker n.) + -eux -ous suffix, after post-classical Latin cancerosus , cancrosus ), and partly < post-classical Latin cancerosus, cancrosus (see cancerous adj.). Compare Old Occitan cancros (14th cent.; Occitan cancerós ), Catalan cancerós (c1400), Spanish canceroso (c1250; also as †cancroso ), Italian cancheroso (a1561; earlier as †cancroso (first half of 14th cent.); also as canceroso ). Compare earlier cankered adj., cankery adj., and also cancerous adj. 1. Affected with or of the nature of canker or a canker (see canker n. 1); of or relating to (a) canker. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > of nature of necrosis cankerya1398 cankerousc1425 putrid?1551 gangrenous1597 gangrened1762 necrobiotic1860 c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) 81 Ane oyntment þat availeþ to cancrose vlcerez, and to wondez, and to apostemez. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 16 An helpynge chapitre of a cancrouse [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. cancrous] aposteme. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 115^v (MED) Þat þe cours of þe Cankerous humouris weren drawen þerto. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 17^v/2 The begynnyng of cancrous corruption. 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 60 And for Cankerous Ulcers of the yarde..the lotions aforesayd, are praise worthy. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxxv. 500 Cankrous vlcers of the mouth. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xvii. 121 Moreover, Pope Sixtus gave me fifteen hundred francks of yearly pension..for having cured him of a canckrous botch, which did so torment him, that he thought to have been a Cripple by it all his life. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Malanders Being a sharp Salve, it will kill the canckerous Humour. 1795 W. Moorcroft Direct. Portable Horse Med. Chest 19 Thus they are subject to Wounds and Bruises, which are followed by malignant Thrushes, having a disposition to become cankerous. 1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 415 A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, venerealee's flesh, Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous. 1888 I. K. Felch Poultry Culture 154 The sloughing off of the cankerous substance from the tongue and mouth, when the fowl will commence to mend. 1947 W. P. Blount Dis. Poultry 440 Trichomoniasis in the Pigeon.—This is characterised in young pigeons by cankerous lesions of the mouth or oesophagus, and in the U.S.A. is known as ‘canker’. 1981 G. A. Wobeser Dis. Wild Waterfowl xvii. 204 Many Black Ducks collected during a period of ice-induced starvation in Massachusetts had necrotic foci or ‘cankerous sores’ in the esophageal mucosa. 2. figurative. That infects and corrupts, in the manner of (a) canker; affected with (a) canker (see canker n. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > by gradual or secret means mining1560 undermining1583 cankerous1599 pioning1609 cancerous1655 sapping1819 1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII Sig. I 1^v So priuy suspition..Breedes great displeasure, and raging cankerus enuie. 1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. C2^v Theeues steale, Warres spoyle, or Cank'rous Enuy blot. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. ⁋36. 450 His Words are cancrous, and fall as Excrements. 1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 50 Tyrannick rule..whose cancrous shackles seiz'd The envenom'd soul. 1796 R. Jephson Conspiracy ii. i. 20 A prey to cankerous regret within, I strive against the feeling which consumes me. 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 'Tis the sperm Of what makes life foul, cankerous, and abhorred. 1870 J. P. Robson Evangeline 329 Rank bad foaks wi' cankris harts that ne'er can happy be. 1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 100 A cankerous regret. 1939 E. B. White Camp Meeting in One Man's Meat (1982) 77 They were already buying pretty things, these Methodists, were already paying off old cankerous debts. 1968 Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 21 Oct. 4/2 To him a loveless marriage was typical of the cankerous dishonesty of a sick adult world. 1995 Denver Post 23 Apr. e10/1 South Vietnam was a cankerous stew of religious, political and military enmities. †3. In a state of decay; rotting. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > dangerously ill far gone1533 poorly1570 cankerous1609 dangerous1620 cankery1674 à la mort1700 (to be) on the danger list1938 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. D3 Your flesh rotten, your bones cankerous. 4. Causing canker in plants; of the nature of or characteristic of canker or blight in plants; affected with canker or blight. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having disease caused by insect cankeredc1522 cankerous1613 cankery1681 scabbed1693 grubbed1843 sedged1844 phylloxerated1879 phylloxerized1881 root-knot1888 stem-sick1890 scaly1894 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. vii. 63 You shall also euery spring and fall of the leafe clense your fruit trees from mosse, which proceeding from a cold and cankerous moisture, breedeth dislike, and barrainenesse in trees. 1768 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) at Sand It either parches or chills too much, and produces nothing but Moss and cankerous infirmities. a1866 B. Taylor Vineyard Saint in Poems (1866) 206 The vines were brown with cankerous rust. 1894 J. Nisbet Stud. Forestry xiii. 283 The cankerous diseases which belong to this section may be divided into two main groups. 1928 R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. vi. 76 Vigorous trees being left to grow and weakly or cankerous stems being cut out early. 1941 J. S. Karling Plasmodiophorales 129/1 The losses may be quite serious, particularly if the disease is of the cankerous type and is followed by powdery scab dry rot in storage. 2002 Carbohydrate Res. 337 731/2 Eucalyptus trees in South Africa are being threatened by a fungal disease that produces cankerous stem lesions that go into the wood. 5. Affected with rust or verdigris; corroded. Now rare or disused. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > corroded > rusty > of the nature of rust aeruginous?a1425 cankerous1651 cankery1662 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋160 A canckerous and æruginous quality. 1798 R. Southey Love Lang. Colours in J. W. Warter Southey's Common-place Bk. 4th Ser. 88/2 The copper's cankerous verdure. 1840 T. Hood Tylney Hall (rev. ed.) iii. 177 I wouldn't have your precious wounds fester'd and aggravated by cankerous brass candlesticks. 1902 I. G. Penn & J. W. E. Bowen United Negro xx. 408 With alchemic potency the teacher turns the character of the pupil into pure gold or cankerous brass. 6. Having the properties of (a) canker; consuming the flesh; corroding; venomous. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > cancer cancerous?a1425 cancerated1589 cancered1629 cankerous1691 carcinomatous1699 carcinomatose1742 cancroid1859 sarcomic1958 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 17 A Cancarous and Corroding substance. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 186 These cankerous fetters. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 65 The poor child's got a despert leg throm that car'less wench puttin' the warmin' pan i' the bed—it's sich a nasty cank'rous thing to be burnt ooth. 1927 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 8 Feb. 2/4 Hate has sent its cankerous fangs into the hearts of rulers causing them to declare war. 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