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, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavaties or in the substance of an organ.

partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. Dartroud diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin deseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and hipretism. Piffard.

addressed to the understanding. Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer. Which God defend that I should wring from him. Shak.

A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance to thy kindness." Ford. To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.

Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.

To linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.] Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp. Nicols.

Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

awing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] Sir W. Scott. Discharging arch (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of Lintel. -- Discharging piece, Discharging strut (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. -- Discha…

's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak.

A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n.

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.