mortiferous
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- mortiferousness noun
Etymology
Origin of mortiferous
1525–35; < Latin mortiferus death-bearing, equivalent to morti- (stem of mors ) death + -ferus -ferous
Example Sentences
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Mortiferous, mor-tif′ėr-us, adj. death-bringing: fatal.
From Project Gutenberg
Their black dress-coats have long since become rusty and out of the mode, and the mortiferous whiskey of the country now tantalizes such of them as it has not killed with melancholy remembrances of the Burgundy that was.
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And looking vpon my selfe, I was ashamed to see my vile habite among suche sumpteous induments, that me thought my selfe no otherwaies but euen lyke that vile and mortiferous beast among the most noble signes of the Zodiac.
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But whatever it is in any other Country, 'tis certainly Mortiferous in ours.
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Also this Laudable Medicine of Philosophers, according to my understanding, cannot prolong Life, beyond the term prefixed from above, but only preserve from the Effect of all Venimous, or otherwise mortiferous Diseases: and so it is certainly true, as is commonly believed, that the prolongation of Humane Life depends, on the Will of the Omnipotent God only.
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