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putrefy, v.|ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪ|
Also 5–6 putry-, 6–9 putrify.
[a. F. putréfi-er, ad. L. putrefacĕre (see putrefact), with the ending -fy, as if from a L. *putrificāre (whence the spelling putrify): see putrification and -fy.]
1. trans. To render putrid; to cause to rot or decay with a fetid smell. Now rare.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 117 This Galerius..hade the partes interialle of his breste and exterialle putrefiede [putrefacto pectore] and corrupte so soore..that [etc.]. 1528Roy Rede me Epist. (Arb.) 25 For one rotten apple lytell and lytell putrifieth an whole heape. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 90 They would but stinke, and putrifie the ayre. 1659Pearson Creed iv. (1662) 242 The bodies were often left upon the Crosse till the sun and rain had putrified and consumed them. 1784Cowper Task ii. 184 God..bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin, And putrefy the breath of blooming health. 1863Intell. Observ. IV. 103 (tr. Pasteur's Researches) Let us putrefy lactate of lime sheltered from air.
†b. Alch. and Old Chem. To decompose chemically; to subject to any decomposing or destructive process, e.g. to oxidize. Obs.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. v. li. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 160, I have the tought How thou the Bodys must Putrefy. 1651French Distill. i. 14 Things are sooner putrefied in cloudy weather then in faire. Ibid. v. 118 Putrefie them together in Balneo the space of three dayes.
†c. fig. To corrupt morally or socially; to destroy the purity or soundness of; to render corrupt. Obs.
1538Bale Thre Lawes 1927 We charge you no more thys lawe to putryfye. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. in G. G. Smith Eliz. Crit. Ess. (1904) II. 260 Out vpon ranke and lothsome ribaldry that putrifieth where it should purify. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. v. 13 The World is putrified with the corruption of all sin.
2. intr. To become putrid; to decay with an offensive smell; to decompose, rot, ‘go bad’.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxviii, Aboue the grounde if the body lye That by all reason it must putryfye. 1539Elyot Cast. Helthe 37 Suche is the nature of hony, that it suffreth not the bodies to putrifie. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 134 He suffer'd those things to putrefy in Hermetically sealed glasses. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 314 In the cold arctic regions, animal substances, during their winter, are never known to putrefy. 1838Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1010 Albumen and fibrin putrefy very quickly.
b. Of the tissues or fluids in a living body: To become putrid or gangrenous; to fester, suppurate.
c1500[see putrefying vbl. n.]. 1540–54Croke Ps. (Percy Soc.) 11 Myne old sores do breake out agayn, And are corrupte and putrefie. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 170 No Physitian can rightly cure any disease or wound until the venemous matter which putrifies inwardly be drawn out. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. v. 176 The blood would putrefy and become fetid.
c. fig. To become corrupt or decay, morally, socially, or in any non-physical sense.
1526Tindale 1 Pet. i. 4 An inheritaunce immortall and vndefiled, and that putrifieth not. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxvi. §4 The name of vnrighteous persons shall putrifie. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics 29 Raising up some persons thereby to be like salt among corrupted men, least all should putrifie and perish. 1720T. Boston Hum. Nat. Fourfold St. (1797) 114 We putrified in Adam as our root. |