Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Infected with syphilis, by heredity, accidentally, or experimentally.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
syphilize .
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Examples
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The blood of the civilized race has become so thoroughly syphilized, that it is no longer so susceptible to the disease as it once was: and the disease as we know it to-day does not manifest the same virulency as it did years ago, or as it does in a race in whom it is grafted for the first time.
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Further, as there are every night four hundred women diseased by these men, one hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred _public prostitutes will be syphilized during the year; hence, one million six hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred cases of syphilis in both sexes occur every twelve months_.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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In Stockholm, the government statistics show more than forty per cent of all the births to be illegitimate, and in Vienna the state of morals is no better, and venereal diseases are so nearly universal that a physician of wide acquaintance with the inhabitants of this great German metropolis, has declared that three-fourths of the entire population are syphilized.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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Yet the German army stands fairly high as regards freedom from venereal disease when compared with the British army which is more syphilized than any other European army. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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