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adj. - Able to cause disease.

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Usage examples (32)
  • No man could look down into a certain pair of sparkling eyes that are wonderfully familiar to me and talk about things as 'morbific' or 'renascent.'
  • The disease itself was Nature's struggle to re - store health by elimination of the morbific matter.
  • In such a case, the medicine first excites a combat between the morbific force and the conservative reaction.
  • But in Dr. Clarke's theory this period has a peculiar influence in rendering morbific conditions that at other times are innocuous.
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