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Definition of Putrefying
1. putrefy [v] - See also: putrefy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Putrefying
Literary usage of Putrefying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of by Joseph Priestley (1790)
"Fixed Air from putrefying animal ... by this means, water becomes thoroughly
impregnated with fixed air, dif- charged, no doubt, from the putrefying ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Many live upon and among the putrefying debris of other organisms (eg, rotting
vegetable stems and leaves, excrements of animale) ..."
3. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"(C,H,,N), found in putrefying mackerel, horse-flesh, and ox-flesh; toxic. ...
Unnamed NO,), found in putrefying horse-flesh; tede Unnamed (C,H ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1848)
"Phosphorescence of putrefying Organic Bodies. Many organic bodies emit light after
... Phosphorescence of putrefying Animals. At a certain temperature, ..."
5. The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions: Being a by James Johnson (1826)
"... and continued three days, the torrents from the upper parts of the rock sweeping
down great quantities of putrefying vegetable and animal substances, ..."
6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"... thereby arresting the escape and diffusion in the atmosphere of the noxious
effluvia given off by the putrefying matters in the sewers. ..."
7. A Text-book of Bacteriology by George Miller Sternberg (1901)
"BACTERIA OF CADAVERS AND OF putrefying MATERIAL FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. THE putrefactive
changes which occur so promptly in cadavers, when temperature ..."
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