mormal
English
Etymology
French mort-mal (“a deadly evil”).
Noun
mormal (plural mormals)
- (obsolete) A bad sore; a gangrene or cancer.
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue", lines 387-388:
- But greet harm was it, as it thoughte me, / That on his shyne a mormal hadde he.
- But very ill it was, it seemed to me, / That on his shin a deadly sore had he.
- But greet harm was it, as it thoughte me, / That on his shyne a mormal hadde he.
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue", lines 387-388:
References
- “mormal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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