sordes

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Oil, sweat, filth; or the sordes of the body: an excrementitious viscosity, the excrements of oil and other ointments used about the body, and mixed with the sordes of the body: all base and loathsome.

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  1. Filth; refuse; dregs; dross; specifically, in medicine, crusts which form upon the lips and teeth of persons suffering from extreme exhaustion, as in typhoid and other fevers. Yet this, however, not under the name of pleasure; to cleanse itself from the sordes of its impure original, it was necessary it should change its name. Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, ii. 6.

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  1. from Latin sordes, from sordere, be dirty or foul.
 

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