morbific

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No man could look down into a certain pair of sparkling eyes that are wonderfully familiar to me and talk about things as 'morbific' or 'renascent.'

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  1. Causing disease; inducing disease. Nothing but the removal of the feverish and morbific matter within can carry off the distemper. South, Sermons, VI. 311.
  2. Morbific agent. See agent.

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  • No man could look down into a certain pair of sparkling eyes that are wonderfully familiar to me and talk about things as 'morbific' or 'renascent.' —  Mushrooms on the Moor
  • The squire listened with horror to the morbific inventory, muttering at each dread interval, "Bless me! —  My Novel — Volume 11
  • Only thus can we resist the morbific influences which inevitably beset an Established Church in times such as these. —  Born in Exile
  • 'Nullifidian', 'morbific', —  Born in Exile
  • Over-study is one of the morbific tendencies of our time. —  Born in Exile
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  1. = French morbifique = Spanish morbífico = Portuguese Italian morbifico, from Latin as if *morbificus (later Late Latin morbificare, produce disease), from morbus, disease, + facere, make.
 

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