Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sphacelate .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sphacelate .
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Examples
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The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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When America's greatest lexicographer writes me an ungrammatical message on a double-barreled slate, signs it "noeh webstur," and instructs his terrestial to deliver it to me on payment of one cart-wheel dollar, I suspect that there's something sphacelated in the psychological Denmark.
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Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope -- get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats.
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I managed to occasionally inject into the sphacelated sheet a quasi-intelligent idea, to disguise its feculence with a breath of sentiment that by contrast seemed an air from Araby the blest; but the stupid ignorance and dollar-worshiping of the management soon dragged it back into the noisome depths of hopeless nescience and subter-brutish degradation.
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The ligature was removed in seven days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.
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The ligature was removed in seven days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.
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His belly which at first was only hard, now evidently contained a large quantity of water, his legs were more swelled, and a large sphacelated sore appeared upon each outer ancle.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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Its texture was extremely tender, being easily perforated with the finger, was of a livid red colour, and evidently in a sphacelated state.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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