Definition of "impetiginous" []

• Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo. (adjective)

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• "Pinner is a policeman; ah-dudda is an elastic and hard-worked adjective meaning (as P.M. Roget so neatly puts it) "dirty, filthy, nasty, squalid, gross, impetiginous, shameful, pernicious, sinister or mephitic.""
• "Well-nigh vanished diseases reappeared; one old woman was affected with leprosy, another was, covered with impetiginous lichen like a tree which has rotted in the shade."
• "The _Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica_ of 1794, teaches: "A decoction of this plant has been found useful for scrofulous, impetiginous, and syphilitic affections."