morbificとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɔːˈbɪf.ɪk/
• (General American) IPA: /mɔɹˈbɪf.ɪk/
• 韻: -ɪfɪk

形容詞

morbific (comparative more morbific, superlative most morbific)

1. That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 240:

     He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.

2. Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. [from 17th c.]