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Word Meanings - FECULENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

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  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • FESTERMENT
    A festering. Chalmers.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • FECULENT
    Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.
  • CORRECTORY
    Containing or making correction; corrective.
  • CORRECTIFY
    To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
  • PURULENT
    Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
  • CORRUPTION
    1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
  • BETTERMOST
    Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
  • CORRUPTIVE
    Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
  • CORRECTIBLE; CORRECTABLE
    Capable of being corrected.
  • REPAIR
    fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
  • CORRECTNESS
    The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
  • REPAIRABLE
    Reparable. Gauden.
  • FESTER
    1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
  • CLEANSE
    To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
  • CORRECTIONER
    One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. Shak.
  • BETTERMENT
    An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. Bouvier. (more info) 1. A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
  • INCORRECT
    1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
  • UNCORRUPTIBLE
    Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
  • ENFESTER
    To fester. "Enfestered sores." Davies .
  • INFESTER
    One who, or that which, infests.
  • REPURIFY
    To purify again.
  • INCORRUPTION
    The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
  • ABETTER; ABETTOR
    One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
  • INCORRUPTED
    Uncorrupted. Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.
  • DISREPAIR
    A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.

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