Cancerate. World English Historical Dictionary

Cancerate. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cancerate

v. [f. L. cancerāt-us cancerous.] intr. To become cancerous, to grow into a cancer. Hence Cancerated ppl. a.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 426/1. Breasts … Cancerated.

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1694.  R. L’Estrange, Fables, 95. But striking his fist upon the point of a nail in the wall, his hand cancerated.

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1736.  Burton, Cancers, II. in Phil. Trans., XLII. 110. The Right Lobe of the Lungs was full of scirrhous cancerated Tubercles.

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1814.  J. Gilchrist, Reason Arbiter Lang., 64. I would thank any man to put a cover on a cancerated nose.

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