Adjective

(en adjective)

infected with gangrene, gangrenous

* {{quote-book, year=1808, author=John Dryden, title=The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Yes, when the offender can be judged by laws: But when his greatness overturns the scales, Then kings are justice in the last appeal, And, forced by strong necessity, may strike; In which, indeed, they assert the public good, And, like sworn surgeons, lop the gangrened limb: Unpleasant, wholesome, work. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers, title=Memories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Here were rooms crowded with uncomfortable-looking beds, on which lay men whose gangrened wounds gave forth foul odors, which, mingled with the terrible effluvia from the mouths of patients ill of scurvy, sent a shuddering sickness through my frame. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Marie Hay, title=A German Pompadour, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee. }}