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morfound

morfound verb: to affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.

Verb

morfound (third-person singular simple present morfounds, present participle morfounding, simple past and past participle morfounded)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.
    • As doth an hors morfounded by the waye / Whiche none accompte doth set by sporre ne thynge1509, Antoine de la Sale, The fyftene joyes of maryage, London: Wynkyn de Worde, page 44
    • The court is a perpetuall dꝛeame, a bottomeleſſe whoꝛlepole, an inchaunted phantaſy, and a maſe: when he is in, he cannot get out till he be moꝛfounded.1548, Antonio de Guevara, “That in the Court of Pꝛinces All ſay We Will Do It, but None Do It” (chapter xii), in Francis Bryan, transl., A Dispꝛaiſe of the life of a Courtier, and a commendacion of...

Noun

morfound (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Catarrh or coldlike illness.
    • Cough and morfound.1633 [1590], Leonard Mascal [i.e, Leonard Mascall], “The Remedies and Medicines for Speepe and other Cattell”, in The Gouernment of Cattell, London: […] Thomas Harper for Iohn Hariſon, page 223
    • Let him bloud in the Eye-veins, Temple-veins, or through the Noſtrils, and rub the places with young Nettles bruiſed ; or give a ſpoonful of Treacle or Mithridate in Wine, good for the Morfound.1683, “Turning Evil, Morfound”, in A Treatise of Oxen, Sheep, Hogs and Dogs; With their Natures, Qualities, and Uſes, London: […] Obadiah Blagrave, page 28

Forms of morfound

third-person singular presentmorfounds
present participlemorfounding
past participlemorfounded
pastmorfounded

Origin of morfound

From Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”), from Middle French morfondre (“to chill, to cool”), from Franco-Provençal mor, more (“snout”) + Middle French fondre (“to melt”), where the first part comes from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), and the second from Latin fundere. Cognate with French morfondre. The noun is inherited from Middle English mareffownd, mareffownde, likely from the Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”).

Words formed from morfound

Questions about morfound

What does morfound mean?
Morfound means to affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.
What part of speech is morfound?
Morfound can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of morfound?
The past tense of morfound is morfounded.

Words near morfound in the dictionary

  1. Morfin
  2. Morfins
  3. Morford
  4. Morfords
  5. morforex
  6. morfound
  7. morfounded
  8. morfoundering
  9. morfounding
  10. morfounds
  11. Morfrey

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