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putridity|pjuːˈtrɪdɪtɪ|
Also 7–8 erron. putredity.
[f. as prec. + -ity; cf. med.L. putriditās (c 1150 in Thomas Thesaur. Nov. Lat.), F. putridité (1794 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The quality or condition of being putrid or rotten; rottenness; loathsome decay.
a1639Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. ii. iv. (1651) 202 The whole malady proceeds from that inflammation, putredity, black smoky vapours. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 92 The degree of freshness or of putridity. 1801Med. Jrnl. V. 145 A true typhus, with symptoms of putridity. 1866Bright Sp., Reform 16 Oct. (1876) 380 General corruption and putridity are the destruction of most bodies which they affect. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 34 According to some bacteriologists putridity is mainly due to the influence of micro-organisms.
b. fig. Moral or metaphorical rottenness.
1823Southey Lett. 31 Oct. (1856) III. 408 Not against the principle of the government..but against the stagnation and putridity. 1873‘Ouida’ Pascarel I. 8 We—whose whole year-long course is one Dance of Death over the putridity of our pleasures. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 183 The emblem of purity and preservation from putridity.
2. concr. Putrid matter.
1790C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 356 As we find the Deity has made putridity agreeable and wholesome to several of the animals, he might have made it so to all. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 448 The smoke and putridities, which taint the air of large cities. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. vi. (1860) 197 The naked skin on the head of a vulture is considered as a direct adaptation for wallowing in putridity. |