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ergotisms

ergotisms is the plural of ergotism.

Meaning of ergotism

Noun (1)

ergotism (countable and uncountable, plural ergotisms)

  1. The plant disease caused by ergot.
  2. The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the fungus Claviceps purpurea which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs, consisting of convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
  3. The use of ergot-infested grain to poison animals.

Noun (2)

ergotism (plural ergotisms)

  1. A logical deduction.
    • States are not governed by Ergotisms. Many have Ruled will who could not perhaps define a Commonwealth[…]c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press...

Questions about ergotisms

What is ergotisms the plural of?
Ergotisms is the plural of ergotism.

Words near ergotisms in the dictionary

  1. ergotise
  2. ergotised
  3. ergotises
  4. ergotising
  5. ergotism
  6. ergotisms
  7. ergotization
  8. ergotize
  9. ergotized
  10. ergotizes
  11. ergotizing

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