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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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purulent: synonyms: suppurant ???

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seeping pus or consisting of pus

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The right, in its upper portion, was also partially, if not thoroughly, ossified, while the lower region was merely a mass of purulent tubercles, running one into another.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)

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scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)