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Morbific

//mɔːˈbɪf.ɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.

    "He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased.
Adjective
  1. 1
    able to cause disease wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).

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