Morbific
//mɔːˈbɪf.ɪk// adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased.
Adjective
- 1 able to cause disease wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).
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