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cankered, ppl. a.|ˈkæŋkəd|
Forms: 5 cankerd, 5–7 -cred, 6 -karde, -card, -cerd, -ckerde, -ckered, -ckred, -crid, (Sc. -karit, -kerit, -kerrit, -kcart, -kart, kankyrryt), 6–7 cankard, 6–8 -kred, 7 -cered, 6– cankered.
[f. canker v. + -ed.]
1. Ulcerated, gangrened.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxiv. (1495) 783 Rotyd woundes..cancred other festred. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxiv. 654 Old cankered sores.
†2. Rusted, corroded; tarnished. Obs. exc. dial.
1570Levins Manip. 49 Cankred, ferruginosus. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 72 The canker'd heapes of strange-atchieued Gold. 1611Bible Jas. v. 3 Your gold and siluer is cankered. 1799G. Smith Laborat. I. 227 The iron..will become cankered.
3. Of plants:
a. Infected with canker.
b. Eaten by a cankerworm.
c1530More De quat. Noviss. Wks. 88/2 The cancred rote of pride. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 205 If you find any [Tulips] to be Canker'd. 1803Ann. Rev. I. 767/1 A new and effectual method of..curing cankered trees. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. vi. 115 To pine and droop like a cankered rosebud.
†4. Infected, polluted; infectious, venomous.
1633Milton Arcades 53 What the..hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 106 The Colepit waters, especially those they call Canker'd waters, that kill all the fish wherever they fall into the Rivers.
5. fig. Infected with evil; corrupt, depraved.
c1440York Myst. vii. 97 Here is a cankerd company. 1513Douglas æneis v. iv. 72 Defend ȝow fra that cankyrit [v.r. kankeyryt] cast. 1535Coverdale Susanna 52 O thou olde canckerde carle, that hast vsed thy wickednesse so longe. 1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 296 Dangerous, pestilent, cankered heresy. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. App. 693 The cancred greediness of worldly minded men. 1797Godwin Enquirer i. ii. 9 The..most cankered villain. 1857H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets viii. 290 A cankered profligate, case-hardened in sensuality.
6. fig. Malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed. (This and preceding sense were exceedingly frequent in 16th c.)
1513Douglas æneis v. xi. 12 Rolling in mynd full mony cankarit bloik. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 60 Cruell and crabit, and cankerit of kynd. 1555Fardle Facions Pref. 20 Any cankered reprehendour of other mens doynges. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 194 A wicked will..A cankred Grandams will! 1618Stukeley Petit. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 394 A cancered enemy to God and his Sovereign. 1816Scott Antiq. xxv, ‘What ails ye to be cankered, man, wi' your friends?’ 1859C. Brontë Shirley x 146 The vinegar discourse of a cankered old maid. |