ULCEROUS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Ulcerous

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Ulcerous adj.

Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.

Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. "It will but skin and film the ulcerous place."

See images of 'Ulcerous'

Etymology of 'Ulcerous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Ulcerous" Quotes from Famous Books

... in his letters to Monroe and Rufus King, he advocates a scheme of colonization to some point not too distant. But let no man, on this account, claim Jefferson as a supporter of the do-nothing school of Northern demagogues, or of the mad school of Southern fanatics who proclaim this ulcerous mass a beauty, and who howl at all who refuse its infection. For, note, in that same letter to St. George Tucker, the fervor of the Jeffersonian theory: bitter as Tucker's pamphlet against slavery was, he says,—"You know my subscription to its ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various

... Huguenots, and for the cordial reception he had given Coligny at his court. "You know," he said, "that this kingdom fell into discord and division, in which it still is involved. I forgot no prescription which I thought might cure it of this ulcerous wound; at one time trying mild remedies, at others applying the most caustic, without sparing my own person, or those whom nature made most dear to me.... But, having at length discovered that only time could alleviate the ill, and that those who ...

— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

Words linked to "Ulcerous" : cankerous, ulcerated, unhealthy, ulcer