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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Putrifying

The Bible

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Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Putrefy

PU'TREFY, verb transitive [Latin putrefacio; putris, putrid, and facio, to make.]

1. To cause to dissolve; to disorganize and reduce to the simple constituent elements, as animal or vegetable bodies; to cause to rot. Heat and moisture soon putrefy dead flesh or vegetables.

2. To corrupt; to make foul; as, to putrefy the air. [Little used.]

3. To make morbid, carious or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

PU'TREFY, verb intransitive To dissolve and return to the original distinct elements, as animal and vegetable substances deprived of the living principle; to rot.