morbific

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/mɔːˈbɪf.ɪk/
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/mɔːˈbɪf.ɪk/ · /mɔɹˈbɪf.ɪk/

Definition of morbific

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
    “He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.”
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adj

  1. That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
    “He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.”
  2. Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased.

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Etymology

From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).

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