Noun
A bad sore; a cancer or gangrene.
Usage- Obsolete
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[Y]e wyll cauſe to be choſen Cenſores or correctours of maners, […] Who lyke good ſurgeons, ſhall not forbeare with corroſiue and ſharpe medicines, to drawe out the feſtred and ſtinkyng cores of olde marmolles and inueterate ſores of the weale publike, ingendred by the longe cuſtome in vice.
They built their cathedrals, carved their Gothic philosophy into a million intricacies, sang their love-songs, rang their bells, danced and laughed in spite of all the buboes and mormals, the agues and mortal sweats, in spite of stink and worm-eaten flesh and all the inconceivable cruelties of unconquered nature.
The blood feud was old and a mormal between our Families. It undermined cooperation that has since proved very profitable.