Definition of Festered

1. Verb. (past of fester) ¹

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Definition of Festered

1. fester [v] - See also: fester

Lexicographical Neighbors of Festered

fessed
fessed up
fesses
fesses up
fessing
fessing up
fessitude
fesswise
fest
festa
festal
festally
festals
festas
fester
festered (current term)
festering
festeringly
festerment
festerments
festers
festinant
festinate
festinated
festinately
festinates
festinating
festinating gait
festination
festinations

Literary usage of Festered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"... —ire, van. i. and 3. to anger, Irritate, make gangrenous ; en. to become irritated, festered, ..."

2. Guesses at Truth by Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1847)
"scale, and that in his solitude in St Helena such malignity festered in his heart, as made him leave a legacy of ten thousand franks to a man for having ..."

3. A treatise on the structure, functions, and diseases of the foot and leg of by William Charles Spooner (1840)
"festered Corns. — It occasionally happens that corns fester — matter is formed, which, not being allowed any depending opening, rises upwards in the course ..."

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