Word Meanings - LEPEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous. "The leperous distillment." Shak.

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• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• INFECTIOUS
  Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• CORRUPTNESS
  The quality of being corrupt.
• CORRUPTIBILITY
  The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.
• DISTILLMENT
  Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. Shak.
• CORRUPTINGLY
  In a manner that corrupts.
• LEPROUS
  Leprose. -- Lep"rous*ly, adv. -- Lep"rous*ness, n. (more info) 1. Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy. "His hand was leprous as snow." Ex. iv. 6.
• CORRUPTLY
  In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.
• CORRUPT
  1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles. 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated;
• INFECTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being infectious.
• LEPEROUS
  Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous. "The leperous distillment." Shak.
• CORRUPTRESS
  A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.
• CORRUPTLESS
  Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible. Dryden.
• CORRUPTER
  One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.
• CORRUPTFUL
  Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. "Corruptful bribes." Spenser.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• INCORRUPTED
  Uncorrupted. Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.
• INCORRUPTIBLE
  1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake. 2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and
• INCORRUPTIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.
• INCORRUPTLY
  Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.
• UNCORRUPTION
  Incorruption.