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syphilitic

[ sif-uh-lit-ik ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.


noun

  1. a person affected with syphilis.
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Other yvlog Forms

  • i·i·· adverb
  • t·i·i adjective noun
  • Dzȴ··i adjective
  • d·i·i adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of syphilitic1

First recorded in 1780–90; from New Latin syphiliticus, from syphili(s) syphilis + -ticus -tic
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Example Sentences

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The Washington here, with dirty cotton hair and an expression of ominous blankness, is spattered with red — it makes him look Caucasian, bloody and syphilitic.

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You keep reading because it’s Dylan, because there’s always an eerie little gas station, an Indian casino, an itinerant preacher or a syphilitic old madam around the next corner.

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In the syphilitic group, half were given the best treatment known at the time, but the other half, about 200 men, received no treatment at all for syphilis, PHS officials say.

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At 40, Baudelaire was a shadow of his former self, crushed by unrepayable debts, suffering the aftereffects of a seemingly minor stroke, and facing the onset of syphilitic debility.

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He had borrowed bits and pieces of a not-too-well-disguised Schoenberg as a model for the syphilitic central character in “Doctor Faustus.”

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