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putid, a. Now rare.|ˈpjuːtɪd|
[ad. L. pūtid-us stinking, foul, f. pūtē-re to stink: see -id1.]
†1. Stinking, rotten, putrid. Obs.
1659Gauden Slight Healers (1660) 21 Some putid or corrupt humors in the body.
2. fig. Foul, base; morally or intellectually ‘rotten’ or worthless. (Often merely a term of contempt or execration.)
1580Fulke Dang. Rock xviii. Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 391 O putid and absurd slanders! 1635–56Cowley Davideis i. Notes, Wks. (1669) 28 Made up..by the putid officiousness of some Grammarians. 1681Baxter Answ. Dodwell iv. 28 A chain of forgeries or putid falshoods. a1734North Exam. iii. vii. §70 (1740) 556 He hath..framed so putid a Libel upon his Lordship. 1818J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 216 To reject this narration as a putid fable.
Hence puˈtidity [ad. med.L. pūtiditās, c 1150 in Thomas Thesaur.], ˈputidness, the quality of being putid, rottenness; ˈputidly adv.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. ii. xvi. 199 High-tasted sawces..applied to tainted meats, to make their putidness less perceptible. 1864Webster, Putidity, Putidness. 1897Sat. Rev. 7 May 552/2 What we most feebly and putidly nowadays call a lady-doctor. |