The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ulcerous \Ul"cer*ous\, a. [L. ulcerous: cf. F. ulc['e]reux.]
Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.
--R. Browning.-
Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin ulcerosus "full of sores," from stem of ulcus (see ulcer).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to an ulcer 2 Having an ulcer
WordNet
Usage examples of "ulcerous".
Out in the street his father caught him and lifted him up and Ade began to cry unbearably as all the murky lights from the ghetto and the filthy untarred road and the broken-down houses and the ulcerous poverty converged on him.
At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask's boat and marring the bows.
At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask’s boat and marring the bows.