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.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference

The disease itself was Nature's struggle to re - store health by elimination of the morbific matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference

In such a case, the medicine first excites a combat between the morbific force and the conservative reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference

But in Dr. Clarke's theory this period has a peculiar influence in rendering morbific conditions that at other times are innocuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

This morbific material is best understood by regarding it as being in an incomplete or half-way stage, in which form it is injurious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

He claimed that disease was nothing more than an effort on the part of nature to restore the health of the patient by the elimination of the morbific matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

"You have won," she thought, regarding the murky thickets that were hung with morbific blossoms, the trees that remained a labyrinth even while they dissolved in the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

But on the whole, the most important symptom of chronic inflammation of the lower bowel, and the most far-reaching in its morbific results, is that protean monster, chronic constipation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

It is evident, however, that if such exhaustion had been produced previous to the menstrual epoch, the effect would be precisely the same as if the morbific causes operated only at the time of menstruation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Therefore any single dimension of health cannot be considered in isolation, as the human organism works, as an integrated whole always, whether performing its normal functions or defending itself from morbific stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Integral Way of Healing] Reference

The febrile paroxysm is fully formed, whilst the preternatural heat kindled in the heart is thence diffused by the arteries through the whole body along with the morbific matter, which is in this way overcome and dissolved by nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Over-study is one of the morbific tendencies of our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

But there is nothing morbid or morbific going into these few lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors morbific impress me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors morbific impress me.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Dead-House, The] Reference

Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odours morbific impress me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference

The warmer the weather is, the greater will be the morbific effect of a cold draught of air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852] Reference

Insanity is the result of a material change in the structure of the brain produced by morbific action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

It is some morbific agency, the influence of which, Dr. Whedon said, is exerted upon the pneumogastric nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

Page 160 of his family was so pure, that only aristocratic diseases could make any morbific impression on their susceptible systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference

These authors present in this report an elaborate article on morbific and infectious milk, giving a very complete bibliography of 180 numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying] Reference

Dr. Garnett, now greatly weakened in body, and not exempt from anxiety of mind, became more and more susceptible to the action of morbific matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

This state of affairs had existed from childhood, and, as the evacuations were abundant and connected, no morbific change or malformation seemed present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Morel, in his "Traité des Dégénérescences Phisiques," ably discusses the degenerative and morbific influences and results of toxæmia, as well as he clearly defines their sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference

If there exist a predisposition to consumption, the disease will be developed under peculiar morbific influences which would have no deleterious effect upon a subject not so predisposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger] Reference

I will stay and watch the Crisis; and assist Nature, like an honest Physician, in throwing off the morbific matter. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference

A certain morbific influence can be conveyed and imparted, is shewn by abundant evidence to be alike probable and possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852] Reference

The squire listened with horror to the morbific inventory, muttering at each dread interval, "Bless me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Labuntur anni, '"said the Colonel, insensibly imbibing one of those Horatian particles that were ever floating in that classic atmosphere -- to Darrell medicinal, to Fairthorn morbific.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

Therefore, as to expel the morbific mat - ter (3) feems to be the defign of Nature, to promote this defign by the meafures that are approved by experience in analogous dif« orders, is the duty of (he Phyfician.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill] Reference

Nor odors morbific impress me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference

'"Nullifidian," "morbific," "renascent" -- these were among his favourites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference