mormal
mormal noun: a bad sore; a cancer or gangrene.
Noun
mormal (plural mormals)
- A bad sore; a cancer or gangrene.
- [Y]e wyll cauſe to be choſen Cenſores or correctours of maners, […] Who lyke good ſurgeons, ſhall not forbeare with corroſiue and ſharpe medicines, to drawe out the feſtred and ſtinkyng cores of olde marmolles and inueterate ſores of the weale publike, ingendred by the longe cuſtome in vice.1541, [Aelius Lampridius], “The Oracion of Alexander to the Senate”, in Thomas Elyote [i.e., Thomas Elyot], transl., The Image of Gouernaunce Complied of the Actes and Sentences Notable, of the Most...
- They built their cathedrals, carved their Gothic philosophy into a million intricacies, sang their love-songs, rang their bells, danced and laughed in spite of all the buboes and mormals, the agues and mortal sweats, in spite of stink and worm-eaten flesh and all the inconceivable cruelties of...2007, Aldous Huxley, “A Country Walk”, in Jerome Meckier, Bernfried Nugel, editors, Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, volume 7, Lit Verlag, →ISBN, page 37
Forms of mormal
| plural | mormals |
|---|---|
| alternative form | morimal |
| alternative form | mortmal |
Origin of mormal
French mort-mal (“a deadly evil”).
Questions about mormal
- What does mormal mean?
- Mormal means a bad sore; a cancer or gangrene.
- What part of speech is mormal?
- Mormal is a noun.
- What is the plural of mormal?
- The plural of mormal is mormals.
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