Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, resembling, or affected by scurvy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of scurvy.
  • Affected, tainted, or diseased with scurvy; suffering from scurvy: as, scorbutic persons.
  • noun A person affected with scurvy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or suffering from scurvy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin scorbūticus, from scorbūtus, scurvy, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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From early New Latin scorbuticus ("pertaining to scurvy"), from scorbutus ("scurvy"), from French scorbut, of Germanic origins.

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  • "These facts, he alleges, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity posters, religious ministers of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers ..."

    Joyce, Ulysses, 14

    January 22, 2007

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    December 12, 2008