Vocabulary Word
Word: fetid
Definition: (foetid) malodorous; foul
Definition: (foetid) malodorous; foul
Sentences Containing 'fetid'
Meat spoiled in a few hours in the fetid and pestiferous air, and turned black.
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.
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