Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or of the nature of impetigo.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.

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  • adjective Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.

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  • adjective of or relating to or having impetigo

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Examples

  • Pinner is a policeman; ah-dudda is an elastic and hard-worked adjective meaning (as P.M. Roget so neatly puts it) "dirty, filthy, nasty, squalid, gross, impetiginous, shameful, pernicious, sinister or mephitic."

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Well-nigh vanished diseases reappeared; one old woman was affected with leprosy, another was, covered with impetiginous lichen like a tree which has rotted in the shade.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • Well-nigh vanished diseases reappeared; one old woman was affected with leprosy, another was, covered with impetiginous lichen like a tree which has rotted in the shade.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • Well-nigh vanished diseases reappeared; one old woman was affected with leprosy, another was, covered with impetiginous lichen like a tree which has rotted in the shade.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

  • The _Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica_ of 1794, teaches: "A decoction of this plant has been found useful for scrofulous, impetiginous, and syphilitic affections.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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