morbific

  • 11morbific — a. Noxious, deleterious, unwholesome, unhealthy, pestilential, poisonous, baneful …

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  • 12morbific — adj pestiferous, pestilential, noxious, poisonous, toxic, venomous, Archaic. venenose; pernicious, deleterious, harmful, hurtful, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome; morbiferous, baneful, nocuous, destructive, deadly, lethal; noisome, mephitic …

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  • 13morbific — mor·bif·ic …

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  • 14morbific — /mɔˈbɪfɪk/ (say maw bifik) adjective causing disease. Also, morbifical. {New Latin morbificus, from Latin morbus disease} –morbifically, adverb …

  • 15morbific — adj. causing disease. Etymology: F morbifique or mod.L morbificus f. L morbus disease …

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  • 16Morbifical — Morbific Mor*bif ic, Morbifical Mor*bif ic*al, a. [L. morbus disease + ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. morbifique. See { fy}.] Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 17Infection — In*fec tion, n. [Cf. F. infection, L. infectio a dyeing.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act or process of infecting. [1913 Webster] There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe. [1913 Webster] 2.… …

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  • 18Disease — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disease >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disease disease Sgm: N 1 illness illness sickness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 ailing ailing &c.??? all the ills that flesh is heir to =>(Hamlet) Sgm: N 1 morbidity morbidity …

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  • 19Insalubrity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insalubrity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insalubrity insalubrity Sgm: N 1 unhealthiness unhealthiness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 nonnaturals nonnaturals Sgm: N 1 plague spot plague spot Sgm: N 1 malaria malaria …

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  • 20Coction — Coc tion, n. [L. coctio.] 1. Act of boiling. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) (a) Digestion. [Obs.] (b) The change which the humorists[1] believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison. [1913 Webster] …

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