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mortmal

mortmal is the obsolete form of mormal.

Meaning of mormal

Noun

mormal (plural mormals)

  1. (obsolete) 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...

Questions about mortmal

What is mortmal the obsolete form of?
Mortmal is the obsolete form of mormal.

Words near mortmal in the dictionary

  1. Mortlockese
  2. mortmain
  3. mortmainer
  4. mortmainers
  5. mortmains
  6. mortmal
  7. morto
  8. mortocracies
  9. mortocracy
  10. Morton
  11. Morton and Hanthorpe

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