'Cankered' definitions:
Definition of 'Cankered'
From: GCIDE
- Cankered \Can"kered\, a.
- 1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cankered'
From: GCIDE
- Canker \Can"ker\ (k[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cankered (-k[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering.]
- 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [1913 Webster]
- No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]