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Definition: Ulcerous |
UlcerousAdjective1. Having an ulcer or canker. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ulcerous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: UlcerousSynonyms: cankerous (adj), ulcerated (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ulcerous |
| English words defined with "ulcerous": Ancome ♦ Exulceratory ♦ Ulcered. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ulcerous": King. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
St. Ignatius Loyola | Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester: "If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester." "The reason, Sire, that you would thrive," The fool said -- "if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit." Oogum Bem KING'S :EVIL:, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from scrofa, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms." |
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| "Ulcerous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ulcerous" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ulcerous": ulcerous dyspepsia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ulcerous | 8 |
ulcerous colitis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ulcerous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ulceroz (ulcered), i ulceruar (ulcered). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | язвен (ulcered), гноясал (foul, mattery, purulent), възпален (bloodshot, raspy, sore, ulcered), подлютен (sore). (various references) | |
Czech | vředovitý. (various references) | |
Danish | ulcusdyspepsi (ulcerous dyspepsia). (various references) | |
Dutch | maagzweer (ulcerous dyspepsia, ventricular ulcer). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجروح , قرحه ای , قرحه دار, زخمی (Traumatic), زخم دار, ریش (Barb, Beard, Sore, Ulcer, Whisker). (various references) | |
Finnish | ulkus dyspepsia (ulcerous dyspepsia). (various references) | |
French | inflammation ulcéreuse (ulcerous inflammation), dyspesie ulcéreuse (ulcerous dyspepsia). (various references) | |
German | geschwürig (ulcerated). (various references) | |
Greek | ελκώδησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כיבי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fekélyes (chancrous, festering, ulcered). (various references) | |
Italian | dispepsia ulcerosa (ulcerous dyspepsia). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erousulcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ulceroso. (various references) | |
Russian | язвенный (ulcerative, ulcered). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ulcerozan, razjeden (cankerous, cankery), grizličav. (various references) | |
Spanish | ulceroso (cankered, cankerous). (various references) | |
Swedish | ulcerös, varig (purulent), sårig (raw, sore). (various references) | |
Turkish | ahlâkı bozulmuş, ülserli (ulcerated). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виразковий (ulcered). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | loét. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ulcerous" (pronounced 'Ul"cer*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: closure, colures. | |
-2 letters: ceorls, cerous, closer, clours, coleus, colure, course, cresol, crouse, curule, lucres, oculus, oscule, source, ulcers. | |
-3 letters: ceorl, ceros, close, clour, clues, coles, cores, corse, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, ecrus, euros, locus, lores, loser, lours, louse, luces, lucre, lures, orles, ousel, roles, roues, rouse, rules, score, scour, socle, sorel, sucre. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: credulous. | |
+2 letters: cocultures, luciferous, operculums, pronucleus, uncouplers. | |
+3 letters: courteously, credulously, groupuscule, incredulous, multicourse, multisource, resourceful, tuberculous. | |
+4 letters: courageously, furunculoses, glucuronides, groupuscules, macronucleus, micronucleus, microtubules, monocultures, multicourses, pronucleuses, supercilious, tuberculoses, tuberculosis. | |
+5 letters: credulousness, elucubrations, floricultures, glucuronidase, horticultures, incredulously, ludicrousness, microcultures, neuromuscular, neurosurgical, overcredulous, perspicuously, resourcefully, thunderclouds. | |
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