Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
2. (a.) Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
Greek
4550. sapros -- rotten, worthless ... rotten, useless, corrupt, depraved. 4550 -- properly, (
putrid), over-ripe;
(figuratively) (ripened); hence, . "4550 () is (akin
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Spiritual Resurrection
... Just as the body is dead, incapable, unable, unfeeling, and soon about to become
corrupt and putrid, so are we if we be unquickened by divine grace; dead in ...
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Survival of the Fittest
... bones gather, and the clay-heaps heave, rattling and adhering into half-kneaded
anatomies, that crawl and startle, and struggle up among the putrid weeds, with ...
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The Stony Heart Removed
... If the heart were a putrid ulcer, if the very vitals of the man were rotten, what
human surgery, what marvellous medicine could touch a defect so radical as ...
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Of Obscene Talk.
... 3. The crime is comprehensive enough to afford abundance of matter for the most
Satyrical zeal, but I consider the dissecting of putrid Bodies may cast such ...
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Fearlessness.
... We need men who will rip the mask off the putrid face of corruption and pronounce
God's sentence upon it; who will lift up the trap-door of the cess-pools of ...
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The Waterpots at Cana
... Lord multiplied loaves and fishes, they must eat the loaves and fishes directly,
or else the bread would grow mouldy, and the fish would be putrid; but wine ...
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Disputed Questions About the Limits of Knowledge and Certainty in ...
... perceptual illusions when we think something is smooth which is actually rough,
or something sweet which is bitter, something fragrant which is putrid, that a ...
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The Calumny against the Christians Illustrated in the Discovery of ...
... cut out, too, from the very root, with her throat [591] mutilated, which cannot
be wounded even on the outside without danger, and the putrid gore flowing back ...
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'de Profundis'
... It is a torturing disgusting disease, which gives his flesh no health, and
his bones no rest, and his wounds are putrid and corrupt. ...
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Epistle xiii. --To Hierax, a Bishop in Egypt.
... blood and slaughters and the drowning struggles of men, just as it did of old, when
on Pharaoh's account it was changed by Moses into blood, and made putrid. ...
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Thesaurus
Putrid (3 Occurrences)... 1. (a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal
or vegetable matter; as,
putrid flesh.
...Putrid (3 Occurrences).
.../p/putrid.htm - 7kCorrupt (59 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. ...
9. (vi) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. 10. ...
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Putrefy (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed;
to cause to rot. ... 4. (vi) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot. ...
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Corruption (37 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid;
decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction ...
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Vulture (16 Occurrences)
... They fed on carcasses of animals that killed each other, ate putrid fish under the
nests of pelican and cormorant, followed caravans across the desert, and ...
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Outweighs (3 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid;
so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Fuller (5 Occurrences)
... Among them were white clay, putrid urine, and the ashes of certain desert plants
(Arabic qali, Biblical "soap"; Malachi 3:2). The fuller's shop was usually ...
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Taint (1 Occurrence)
... with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous;
hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air ...
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Rot (15 Occurrences)
... corrupt. 3. (vt) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed
by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber. 4 ...
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Rotten (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple;
rotten meat. 2. (a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. ...
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Bible Concordance
Putrid (3 Occurrences)Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor;'so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
(See JPS)
Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish becometh putrid, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
(WBS)
Ezekiel 47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea'shall the waters go which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.
(See JPS)
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Putrid
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Corrupt (59 Occurrences)
Putrefy (1 Occurrence)
Corruption (37 Occurrences)
Vulture (16 Occurrences)
Outweighs (3 Occurrences)
Fuller (5 Occurrences)
Taint (1 Occurrence)
Rot (15 Occurrences)
Rotten (9 Occurrences)
Murrain (1 Occurrence)
Putrifying (1 Occurrence)
Sweet (147 Occurrences)
Abomination (78 Occurrences)
Becometh (82 Occurrences)
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