Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bringing or producing death; deadly; fatal; destructive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In very short time after, those two infected parts were growne mortiferous, and would disperse abroad indifferently, to all parts of the body; whereupon, such was the quality of the disease, to shew it selfe by blacke or blew spottes, which would appeare on the armes of many, others on their thighes, and every part else of the body: in some great and few, in others small and thicke.
The Decameron 2004
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I was ashamed to see my vile habite among suche sumpteous induments, that me thought my selfe no otherwaies but euen lyke that vile and mortiferous beast among the most noble signes of the Zodiac.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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The latter, if burned to ashes in the fire, possesses mortiferous influence over enemies.
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The latter, if burned to ashes in the fire, possesses mortiferous influence over enemies.
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The focus on convergence and disregard of the exploitation of differences between different spatial or virtual regions has been shown in chapter 2 as being the mortiferous pitfall of the traditional discernment of globalisation.
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They have many sacred implements or relics, which are for the most part carefully kept concealed from the eyes of all, but especially from the women, such as, pieces of rock crystal, said to have been extracted by them from individuals who were suffering under the withering influence of some hostile sorcerers; the pringurru, a sacred piece of bone (used sometimes for bleeding), etc. The latter, if burned to ashes in the fire, possesses mortiferous influence over enemies.
qms commented on the word mortiferous
May God in his mercy deliver us
From beasts that are wild and carnivorous,
From shoal-ridden shores
And humorless bores,
And all things that tend toward mortiferous.
June 13, 2017