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livor|ˈlaɪvɔː(r)|
[a. L. līvor in both senses.]
1. Path. ‘The mark of a blow; lividness, lead-colour’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Also, the discoloration of skin in a corpse; pl. the parts of skin discoloured.
1656Blount Glossogr., Livor, a black and blew mark in a body, coming of a stroke or blow; also blackness of the eyes coming of humors. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 672 The erysipelatous livor..gained ground. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets i. 33 It is the fashion..to praise..even the strange livors of corruption. 1885R. Christison Life I. Autobiog. xiv. 307 Natural cadaveric livor is confined to so thin a layer of tissue that [etc.].
†2. Ill-will, malignity, spite. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 74 With unappeaseable wrath and blood-desiring livor, he pressed and trod to pieces the incest marriage-causer. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. viii, Out of this roote of envy, spring those ferall branches of faction, hatred, livor, emulation. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. i. 127 But what a plague livor and faction is [to] the Church and the owners souls, let but these ugly words of his be witness. |