Now rare. [f. prec. In first quot. after F. ulcérer.] a. absol. To cause an ulcer or ulcers. b. trans. To ulcerate. Also fig.
1590. C’tess Pembroke, Antonie, 284. And his [sc. Love’s] sweet shafts, with whose shot none are kill’d, Which ulcer not.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., V. vi. 379. This by degrees abates the reverence of religion, and ulcers mens hearts with profaneness.
1694. Acc. Sev. Late Voy., Introd. p. xxii. The cold had prodigious effects on our men in Greenland,… as blistering, and ulcering their flesh.
1829. Lytton, Disowned, xiv. Thought, feeling, the faculties and impulses of man, all ulcered into one great canker—Gain.
