Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, resembling, or affected by scurvy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of scurvy.
- Affected, tainted, or diseased with scurvy; suffering from scurvy: as, scorbutic persons.
- noun A person affected with scurvy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or suffering from
scurvy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy
Etymologies
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Examples
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The emplastrum de minio made to cover the whole of a swelled leg in this manner, whether the swelling is hard, which is usually termed scorbutic; or more easily compressible, as in anasarca, reduces the limb in two or three days to its natural size; for this purpose
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel
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When these capillary glands become inflamed, a still more viscid or even cretaceous humour is produced upon the surfaces of the membranes, which is the cause or the effect of rheumatism, gout, leprosy, and of hard tumours of the legs, which are generally termed scorbutic; all which will be treated of hereafter.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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[Page 71] * In the diseases produced by bad food, such as scorbutic dysentery and diarrhoea, the patient's stomach often craves for and digests things, some of which certainly would be laid down in no dietary that ever was invented for sick, and especially not for such sick.
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Our men began again to fall sick, and two of them dropped down on the deck in a kind of scorbutic appoplexy, but recovered on being let blood.
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Army doctors on the frontier learned to use the needles as a scorbutic.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Army doctors on the frontier learned to use the needles as a scorbutic.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Army doctors on the frontier learned to use the needles as a scorbutic.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Army doctors on the frontier learned to use the needles as a scorbutic.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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To prevent scurvy we used the juice of the maguey plant, called pulque, and to obtain a supply of this anti-scorbutic I was often detailed to march the company out about forty miles, cut the plant, load up two or three wagons with the stalks, and carry them to camp.
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"These facts, he alleges, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity posters, religious ministers of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 22, 2007
whichbe commented on the word scorbutic
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December 12, 2008