Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cancer or gangrene; an old sore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A bad
sore ; agangrene orcancer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most familiar reference to "mormal" I know of is in Chaucer's General Prologue, where he describes first the Cook, and then the Cook's "mormal," with an implication that it is an open running sore:
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Off topic as they say i saw this coming 6 years ago, .. but there was nothing to indicate it through mormal channels in the secrities business.
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May 26th, 2007 im in ur kicchen scratchin my mormal
May 26th, 2007 chaucerhatblog 2007
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No; a mormal - as suffered by Chaucer's Cook - was a localised ulcer, maybe gangrenous but not "gangrene" in the general sense.
Old disease names - but mostly not Ray Girvan 2004
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(See Webster's 1913 dictionary: mormal = "a bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer").
Old disease names - but mostly not Ray Girvan 2004
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No; a mormal - as suffered by Chaucer's Cook - was a localised ulcer, maybe gangrenous but not "gangrene" in the general sense.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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(See Webster's 1913 dictionary: mormal = "a bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer").
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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I note that the OED describes a mormal as a sore: 1.
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On mormal--gangrene just doesn't seem to fit to me.
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I admit to taking a particular delight in pointing out to students that there's a direct connection between the mormal, and the appearance of blancemanger, a white gelatanous pudding .
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