Word Meanings - SPHACELATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

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• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• MORTIFYINGLY
  In a mortifying manner.
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• MORTIFY
  L. mors, mortis, death + -ficare to make. See Mortal, and 1. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in. 2. To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. Chaucer.
• FLESHLING
  A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
• FLESHMONGER
  One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. Shak.
• FLESHED
  1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh. 2. Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.
• GANGRENOUS
  Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.
• FLESHLINESS
  The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.
• FLESHINGS
  Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.
• FLESHQUAKE
  A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. B. Jonson.
• DECAYED
  Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
• INFLESH
  To incarnate.
• UNFLESHLY
  Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.