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Meaning of SCROFULOUS

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat
  2. [adj]  morally contaminated; "denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times"- J.D.Hart
  3. [adj]  afflicted with scrofula
 
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 Synonyms: ill, immoral, sick, ugly
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Scrof"u*lous\, a. [Cf. F. scrofuleux.]
1. Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as,
   scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.
2. Diseased or affected with scrofula.
         Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished.
                                               --Arbuthnot.
   -- {Scorf"u*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Scrof"u*lous*ness}, n.
 
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