putrefactionn.

Brit.

/ˌpjuːtrᵻˈfakʃn/, U.S.

/ˌpjutrəˈfækʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English putrefactioun, Middle English putrifaccioun, late Middle English putrefaccion, late Middle English putrefaccioun, late Middle English putrefacioun, late Middle English putrefactione (in a late copy), late Middle English putrifaccion, late Middle English (in a late copy)– putrefaction, 1500s putryfaccion, 1500s putryfaccyon, 1500s putryfactyon, 1500s–1600s putrefaccyon (see note below), 1500s–1600s putrifaction, 1500s–1600s putryfaction, 1600s putrifacion; Sc. pre-1700 putrefactioun, pre-1700 putrifaccioune, pre-1700 1700s– putrefaction.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French putrefaction; Latin putrefaction-, putrefactio.

Etymology: < Middle French putrefaction, putréfaction (a1272 in Old French as putrefacion ) and its etymon post-classical Latin putrefaction-, putrefactio process or action of putrefying or rotting (5th cent.; frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin putrefact- , past participial stem of putrefacere putrefact v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan putrefaccio (14th cent.), Catalan putrefacció (1287), Spanish putrefacción (a1400 as putrefaçión), Italian putrefattione (a1320). In form putrefaccyon only in 16th- and 17th-cent. editions of Middle English texts.

1. The state of being putrid; rottenness; the process or action of putrefying or rotting; spec. the decomposition by bacteria of dead animal or plant tissue, which becomes foul-smelling as a result.The foul smell is typically caused by simple breakdown products such as ammonia, hydrogen sulphide, and various amines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > process of

rottingOE

corruption1377

rotc1384

putrefactiona1400

putrification1548

putriture1569

tainting1593

decay1594

putrescence1646

decomposition1777

sepsis1813

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > rotten or putrefying condition > rotting or putrefying

rottingOE

corruption1377

putrefactiona1400

putrification1548

putriture1569

tainting1593

putrescence1646

putredo1680

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > destruction or decomposition

putrefactiona1400

corrosionc1400

attrition1543

momorsion1598

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 51 (MED) Quytture schulde corrupte þilke lyme [= limb] & brynge him to putrifaccioun [v.r. putrefactioun; L. putrefactionem].

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 5746 (MED) A tre..berith yit the name..Mirra..Out off which..Distillith a gomme, a gret preseruatiff..To keepe bodies from putrefaccioun.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 389 (MED) The water of Tiber, towchenge the toppes of the walles of the cite of Rome, brouȝte with hit a multitude of serpentes..with a grete dragon, thro the pestilente putrefaccion [a1387 J. Trevisa stenche; L. putrefactione] of whom moche peple diede in the cite.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 361 (MED) Nothing multiplieth..But bi one of these two waies: One, bi rotyng, callide putrefaccion, That othir, as bestis, bi propagacion.

?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe iii. xv. f. 70 It shall be necessary for them..to be circumspecte in eatynge meate, that shortely wylle receyue putrifaction.

1583 H. Howard Defensatiue sig. Viv^v Those dry seasons, which come not after excessive store of rayne to breede putrifaction, are most wholsome.

1639 in Sc. Antiq. III. 134 And [clayk geese] do hang by the beak till they be of putrefaction.

1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 55 Heat and moisture are the greater disposers to putrifaction.

1756 T. Gray Let. 25 Mar. in Corr. (1971) II. 459 I maintain, that one sick rich has more of pestilence & putrefaction about him, than a whole ward of sick poor.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 65 Animal substances have a constant tendency to putrefaction.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 492 It is attended with great debility, and there is frequently a great tendency to putrefaction and mortification.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xi. 174 The body is never allowed to remain many hours unburied in the tropical climates, where putrefaction is so rapid.

1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1883) 26 All the forms of putrefaction which are undergone by animal and vegetable matters are fermentations set up by Bacteria of different kinds.

1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) ix. 130 Another example is Limburger cheese, in which a strong flavor of incipient putrefaction is produced by the development of bacteria in the cheese mass.

1959 Lancet 28 Feb. 474/1 It [sc. gangrene] is best defined as ‘tissue death combined with putrefaction’.

1981 A. Perry Resurrection Row i. 3 Even more dreadful than the livid, puffy flesh was the sweet smell of putrefaction, and a crumble of earth in the hair.

2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 100 The stench of burning timbers, brick rubble, broken sewers and putrefaction was inescapable.

2. Rotten or putrid matter; an instance of this. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > corrupt or putrid matter or thing

filthOE

carrion1297

putrefactionc1425

pourriture1494

rottacka1500

corruption1526

septic1597

toad-pool1607

putrification1619

grave-jelly1657

putrilage1657

putrilency1657

putredo1680

putridity1790

putrescence1843

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > rotten or putrefying condition > rotten or putrefied matter

putrefactionc1425

pourriture1494

corruption1526

putrification1619

putrilage1657

putrilency1657

putridity1790

putrescence1843

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 44 (MED) Þis oyntment..mundifieþ þe filþe or putrifaccion of þe bone.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 9117 (MED) But haue hym [sc. the body] in despyt..For but a lyknesse off ordure..Donge & putrefaccioun, A Kareyn off corrupcyoun, Thow shalt yt fynde.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health li. 59 Onyons..engender yll humors and corruptible putrifactions in the stomacke.

1602 T. A. Massacre of Money sig. A4^v The ground disdain'd the plowes vnciuill touch, It scorn'd all muckie putrifaction.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H3 The mosse vppon the wall, (which is but a rudiment betweene putrefaction, and an hearbe).

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 39 In the midst is a hole..which receiues that putrefaction and vncleannesse, issuing from the melting bodies, which are laid there naked..exposed to the Sunnes fiery rage.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 29 They would readily [deposit their eggs] in all Putrefaction; even in a mucilage of bruised Spiders.

1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 54 All Heat beyond Temperateness..must necessarily be pernicious in all Distempers, where there is a Tendency to an alcaline Putrefaction.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman viii. 313 It were to be wished that idleness was not allowed to generate, on the rank soil of wealth, those swarms of summer insects that feed on putrefaction.

1827 W. Kennedy Poems 123 Two glairy eyes Masked by foul putrefaction were unveiled.

1837 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) V. 98 I behold thee..a squelched Putrefaction, here on London pavements.

1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 715/1 I shows him the piece I chipped out of the tree, and he called it a putrefaction too; and so, marm, if that wasn't a putrefied peraira, what was it?

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxxiv. 559 At the core of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he had found, not fire and poison, but only a brown disgusting putrefaction and a few small maggots.

1960 C. Achebe No longer at Ease ii. 16 As soon as the night-soil-man passed swinging his broom..and trailing clouds of putrefaction the boy quickly sprang to his feet and began calling him names.

1999 Rockford (Illinois) Register Star (Nexis) 27 July 2 c The main reason we have so many puzzling putrefactions is I've never learned to cook for just two people.

3. Chiefly Alchemy. The disintegration or decomposition of an inorganic substance by chemical or other action; the oxidation or corrosion of metals; an instance of this. Now archaic or historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > miscellaneous other processes

englutingc1386

fermentationc1386

conjunctionc1400

cibation1471

separation1471

wheel1471

putrefactiona1550

termination1584

martyrization1612

restinction1617

illinition1678

immersion1683

interfection1727

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decomposition, melting, or crumbling away > of inorganic matter

putrefactiona1550

corruption1563

a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 51 Putrefaction maye thus difffinid be..it is of bodies the sleinge And in our compounde a divisione of thinges three.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F Name the vexations, and the Martyrizations of Mettalls... Sir, Putrefaction, Solution, Ablution, Sublimation [etc.].

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §291 Metals give Orient and Fine colours in Dissolutions..likewise in their Putrefactions or Rusts.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 128 A certain metallick body..that is of an easie solution and putrefaction.

1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 p. xxxvi The solid is completely dissolved,..its solid particles being..driven asunder..as by so many wedges succeeding one another, increasing in bulk, and impelled by attraction, the prime spring of motion in all solutions, fermentations and putrefactions.

1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iv. 70 The retorts and beakers..were set in order, and the unhallowed processes of fixation, conjunction, deflagration, putrefaction, and rubefication were nearing maturity.

1998 L. Abraham Dict. Alchemical Imagery 160 Putrefaction, the corruption that changes one thing into another, occurs during the initial stage in the opus known as nigredo.

4. figurative. Moral corruption or decay; decadence, decline; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption

corrumpciona1340

corruptiona1400

subversiona1425

insincerity1548

corruptness1561

putrefactiona1622

corruptedness1648

putridity1823

putrescence1841

a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 425 The nature of the soule..is simple, and void of all contrariety, and accidents, and causes of corruption or putrefaction, and is, besides, the Image of God.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 89 We bring Elements of our own; earth of Covetousnesse, water of unsteadfastnesse, ayre of putrefaction, and fire of licentiousnesse.

a1711 T. Ken Urania in Wks. (1721) IV. 475 Sweet Poetry has suffer'd most, By Bards..Who in her beauteous Visage spit The Putrefaction of their Wit.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 47. ⁋14 Sorrow..is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) ii. vii. 482 Rome, and the other cities of the Empire, had fallen into moral putrefaction.

1907 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 22 It is thanks to heretics that orthodoxy has been kept from putrefaction.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xvii. 152 Dammit, say what you want to, but there's a corruption about even looking upon evil, even by accident; you cannot haggle..with putrefaction.

1992 J. Crace Arcadia iii. viii. 272 This was the putrefaction of resolve, the enfeebling of that prod-and-nudge which got the traders from their beds each day at five to bargain with the wholesalers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	putrefaction
释义	putrefactionn. Brit. /ˌpjuːtrᵻˈfakʃn/, U.S. /ˌpjutrəˈfækʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English putrefactioun, Middle English putrifaccioun, late Middle English putrefaccion, late Middle English putrefaccioun, late Middle English putrefacioun, late Middle English putrefactione (in a late copy), late Middle English putrifaccion, late Middle English (in a late copy)– putrefaction, 1500s putryfaccion, 1500s putryfaccyon, 1500s putryfactyon, 1500s–1600s putrefaccyon (see note below), 1500s–1600s putrifaction, 1500s–1600s putryfaction, 1600s putrifacion; Sc. pre-1700 putrefactioun, pre-1700 putrifaccioune, pre-1700 1700s– putrefaction. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French putrefaction; Latin putrefaction-, putrefactio. Etymology: < Middle French putrefaction, putréfaction (a1272 in Old French as putrefacion ) and its etymon post-classical Latin putrefaction-, putrefactio process or action of putrefying or rotting (5th cent.; frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin putrefact- , past participial stem of putrefacere putrefact v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan putrefaccio (14th cent.), Catalan putrefacció (1287), Spanish putrefacción (a1400 as putrefaçión), Italian putrefattione (a1320). In form putrefaccyon only in 16th- and 17th-cent. editions of Middle English texts. 1. The state of being putrid; rottenness; the process or action of putrefying or rotting; spec. the decomposition by bacteria of dead animal or plant tissue, which becomes foul-smelling as a result.The foul smell is typically caused by simple breakdown products such as ammonia, hydrogen sulphide, and various amines. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > process of rottingOE corruption1377 rotc1384 putrefactiona1400 putrification1548 putriture1569 tainting1593 decay1594 putrescence1646 decomposition1777 sepsis1813 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > rotten or putrefying condition > rotting or putrefying rottingOE corruption1377 putrefactiona1400 putrification1548 putriture1569 tainting1593 putrescence1646 putredo1680 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > destruction or decomposition putrefactiona1400 corrosionc1400 attrition1543 momorsion1598 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 51 (MED) Quytture schulde corrupte þilke lyme [= limb] & brynge him to putrifaccioun [v.r. putrefactioun; L. putrefactionem]. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 5746 (MED) A tre..berith yit the name..Mirra..Out off which..Distillith a gomme, a gret preseruatiff..To keepe bodies from putrefaccioun. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 389 (MED) The water of Tiber, towchenge the toppes of the walles of the cite of Rome, brouȝte with hit a multitude of serpentes..with a grete dragon, thro the pestilente putrefaccion [a1387 J. Trevisa stenche; L. putrefactione] of whom moche peple diede in the cite. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 361 (MED) Nothing multiplieth..But bi one of these two waies: One, bi rotyng, callide putrefaccion, That othir, as bestis, bi propagacion. ?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe iii. xv. f. 70 It shall be necessary for them..to be circumspecte in eatynge meate, that shortely wylle receyue putrifaction. 1583 H. Howard Defensatiue sig. Viv^v Those dry seasons, which come not after excessive store of rayne to breede putrifaction, are most wholsome. 1639 in Sc. Antiq. III. 134 And [clayk geese] do hang by the beak till they be of putrefaction. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 55 Heat and moisture are the greater disposers to putrifaction. 1756 T. Gray Let. 25 Mar. in Corr. (1971) II. 459 I maintain, that one sick rich has more of pestilence & putrefaction about him, than a whole ward of sick poor. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 65 Animal substances have a constant tendency to putrefaction. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 492 It is attended with great debility, and there is frequently a great tendency to putrefaction and mortification. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xi. 174 The body is never allowed to remain many hours unburied in the tropical climates, where putrefaction is so rapid. 1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1883) 26 All the forms of putrefaction which are undergone by animal and vegetable matters are fermentations set up by Bacteria of different kinds. 1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) ix. 130 Another example is Limburger cheese, in which a strong flavor of incipient putrefaction is produced by the development of bacteria in the cheese mass. 1959 Lancet 28 Feb. 474/1 It [sc. gangrene] is best defined as ‘tissue death combined with putrefaction’. 1981 A. Perry Resurrection Row i. 3 Even more dreadful than the livid, puffy flesh was the sweet smell of putrefaction, and a crumble of earth in the hair. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 100 The stench of burning timbers, brick rubble, broken sewers and putrefaction was inescapable. 2. Rotten or putrid matter; an instance of this. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > corrupt or putrid matter or thing filthOE carrion1297 putrefactionc1425 pourriture1494 rottacka1500 corruption1526 septic1597 toad-pool1607 putrification1619 grave-jelly1657 putrilage1657 putrilency1657 putredo1680 putridity1790 putrescence1843 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > rotten or putrefying condition > rotten or putrefied matter putrefactionc1425 pourriture1494 corruption1526 putrification1619 putrilage1657 putrilency1657 putridity1790 putrescence1843 c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 44 (MED) Þis oyntment..mundifieþ þe filþe or putrifaccion of þe bone. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 9117 (MED) But haue hym [sc. the body] in despyt..For but a lyknesse off ordure..Donge & putrefaccioun, A Kareyn off corrupcyoun, Thow shalt yt fynde. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health li. 59 Onyons..engender yll humors and corruptible putrifactions in the stomacke. 1602 T. A. Massacre of Money sig. A4^v The ground disdain'd the plowes vnciuill touch, It scorn'd all muckie putrifaction. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H3 The mosse vppon the wall, (which is but a rudiment betweene putrefaction, and an hearbe). View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 39 In the midst is a hole..which receiues that putrefaction and vncleannesse, issuing from the melting bodies, which are laid there naked..exposed to the Sunnes fiery rage. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 29 They would readily [deposit their eggs] in all Putrefaction; even in a mucilage of bruised Spiders. 1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 54 All Heat beyond Temperateness..must necessarily be pernicious in all Distempers, where there is a Tendency to an alcaline Putrefaction. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman viii. 313 It were to be wished that idleness was not allowed to generate, on the rank soil of wealth, those swarms of summer insects that feed on putrefaction. 1827 W. Kennedy Poems 123 Two glairy eyes Masked by foul putrefaction were unveiled. 1837 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) V. 98 I behold thee..a squelched Putrefaction, here on London pavements. 1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 715/1 I shows him the piece I chipped out of the tree, and he called it a putrefaction too; and so, marm, if that wasn't a putrefied peraira, what was it? 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxxiv. 559 At the core of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he had found, not fire and poison, but only a brown disgusting putrefaction and a few small maggots. 1960 C. Achebe No longer at Ease ii. 16 As soon as the night-soil-man passed swinging his broom..and trailing clouds of putrefaction the boy quickly sprang to his feet and began calling him names. 1999 Rockford (Illinois) Register Star (Nexis) 27 July 2 c The main reason we have so many puzzling putrefactions is I've never learned to cook for just two people. 3. Chiefly Alchemy. The disintegration or decomposition of an inorganic substance by chemical or other action; the oxidation or corrosion of metals; an instance of this. Now archaic or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > miscellaneous other processes englutingc1386 fermentationc1386 conjunctionc1400 cibation1471 separation1471 wheel1471 putrefactiona1550 termination1584 martyrization1612 restinction1617 illinition1678 immersion1683 interfection1727 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decomposition, melting, or crumbling away > of inorganic matter putrefactiona1550 corruption1563 a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 51 Putrefaction maye thus difffinid be..it is of bodies the sleinge And in our compounde a divisione of thinges three. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F Name the vexations, and the Martyrizations of Mettalls... Sir, Putrefaction, Solution, Ablution, Sublimation [etc.]. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §291 Metals give Orient and Fine colours in Dissolutions..likewise in their Putrefactions or Rusts. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 128 A certain metallick body..that is of an easie solution and putrefaction. 1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 p. xxxvi The solid is completely dissolved,..its solid particles being..driven asunder..as by so many wedges succeeding one another, increasing in bulk, and impelled by attraction, the prime spring of motion in all solutions, fermentations and putrefactions. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iv. 70 The retorts and beakers..were set in order, and the unhallowed processes of fixation, conjunction, deflagration, putrefaction, and rubefication were nearing maturity. 1998 L. Abraham Dict. Alchemical Imagery 160 Putrefaction, the corruption that changes one thing into another, occurs during the initial stage in the opus known as nigredo. 4. figurative. Moral corruption or decay; decadence, decline; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption corrumpciona1340 corruptiona1400 subversiona1425 insincerity1548 corruptness1561 putrefactiona1622 corruptedness1648 putridity1823 putrescence1841 a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 425 The nature of the soule..is simple, and void of all contrariety, and accidents, and causes of corruption or putrefaction, and is, besides, the Image of God. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 89 We bring Elements of our own; earth of Covetousnesse, water of unsteadfastnesse, ayre of putrefaction, and fire of licentiousnesse. a1711 T. Ken Urania in Wks. (1721) IV. 475 Sweet Poetry has suffer'd most, By Bards..Who in her beauteous Visage spit The Putrefaction of their Wit. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 47. ⁋14 Sorrow..is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. 1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) ii. vii. 482 Rome, and the other cities of the Empire, had fallen into moral putrefaction. 1907 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 22 It is thanks to heretics that orthodoxy has been kept from putrefaction. 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xvii. 152 Dammit, say what you want to, but there's a corruption about even looking upon evil, even by accident; you cannot haggle..with putrefaction. 1992 J. Crace Arcadia iii. viii. 272 This was the putrefaction of resolve, the enfeebling of that prod-and-nudge which got the traders from their beds each day at five to bargain with the wholesalers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1400
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