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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as sphacelate.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sphacelate.

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Examples

  • The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • When America's greatest lexicographer writes me an ungrammatical message on a double-barreled slate, signs it "noeh webstur," and instructs his terrestial to deliver it to me on payment of one cart-wheel dollar, I suspect that there's something sphacelated in the psychological Denmark.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope -- get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • I managed to occasionally inject into the sphacelated sheet a quasi-intelligent idea, to disguise its feculence with a breath of sentiment that by contrast seemed an air from Araby the blest; but the stupid ignorance and dollar-worshiping of the management soon dragged it back into the noisome depths of hopeless nescience and subter-brutish degradation.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • The ligature was removed in seven days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The ligature was removed in seven days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • His belly which at first was only hard, now evidently contained a large quantity of water, his legs were more swelled, and a large sphacelated sore appeared upon each outer ancle.

    An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770

  • Its texture was extremely tender, being easily perforated with the finger, was of a livid red colour, and evidently in a sphacelated state.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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