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Abatement: The action of abate v.2; wrongful occupation of land or property, usurpation; an instance of this. Frequently in abatement of freehold.
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Alkalescence: alkalinity; tendency to become alkaline.
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Almighty: Referring to a higher power or God.  Frequently referenced in Christian texts or the field of Christianity. 
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Alpenstock: A long iron-tipped staff used in hill and mountain climbing (Used in 1859).
Source: OED
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Ardent Spirit: A strong distilled liquor
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Ascertainable: Capable of being fixed, settled, or decided.
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Asiatic: Of, relating to, or belonging to Asia or its inhabitants. Now often considered offensive when applied to people.
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Auspicious: Ominous, esp. of good omen, betokening success, giving promise of a favourable issue.
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Beget: The action of acquiring; acquisition, gaining; profit, advantage.
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Beneficence: Doing good, the manifestation of benevolence or kindly feeling, active kindness.
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Beseech: To beg earnestly for, entreat (a thing).
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Calamity: The state or condition of grievous affliction or adversity; deep distress, trouble, or misery, arising from some adverse circumstance or event.
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Calvaria: The upper dome like portion of the skull.
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Carminative: Having the quality of expelling flatulence.
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Castigatory: Pertaining to a castigator or to castigation; chastising, corrective, punitive (Used in 1866).
Source: OED
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Cathartic: Cleansing (the bowels), promoting evacuation, purgative.
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Cessation: ceasing, discontinuance, stoppage; either permanent or temporary.
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Chaffing: Teasing.
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Cholera: Disease characterized by severe diarrhoea, vomiting, and abdominal cramps, typically occurring in the summer; gastro-enteritis, enterocolitis, or dysentery (probably mainly of bacterial origin); an instance or case of this.
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Choleraic: Relating to the nature of cholera (bile).
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Cinchonism: The disordered condition produced by the excessive use of cinchona or quinine.
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Clerkenwell: An area in Central London, England.
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Concomitant: Going together, accompanying, concurrent, attendant.
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Constituent: That constitutes or makes a thing what it is; formative, essential; characteristic, distinctive.
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Contagionists: One who maintains or believes that certain diseases, such as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever, are contagious.
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Cordial: A food or (esp. alcoholic) drink with medicinal or health-giving properties, esp. one that is thought to invigorate the heart, stimulate the circulation, or provide comfort (now historical). Also (North American) a liqueur.
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Countenance: Senses relating to general demeanor or appearance.
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Criterion: An organ, faculty or instrument of judging.
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Crotchetty: Given to crotchets; full of crotchets (Used in 1867). Source: OED given to crotchets: subject to whims, crankiness, or ill temper.
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Curative: Of or relating to curing or healing.
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Debauch: obsolete
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Delirium Tremens: A serious form of delirium typically characterized by tremors, delusions and vivid hallucinations, and physical manifestations such as fever and tachycardia, occurring in the first few days after the cessation of a prolonged period of intoxication with alcohol.
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Deportment: The manner of conducting oneself; conduct (of life); behavior.
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Depravity: The quality or condition of being depraved or corrupt.
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Diaphoresis: Perspiration, especially, that produced by artificial means.
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Diphtheria: An infectious disease that is characterized by severe inflammation of mucous membranes, esp. of the throat but often also of the nose, larynx, trachea, and bronchi.
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Diuretic: Having the quality of exciting (excessive) excretion or discharge of urine.
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Drachm: The principal silver coin of the Ancient Greeks.
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Draught: A quantity of liquid medicine ordered as a single dose.
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Dropsy: figurative. An insatiable thirst or craving.
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Dun: Things are at a standstill; there is an impasse or deadlock.
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Dysentery: A disease characterized by inflammation of the mucous membrane and glands of the large intestine, accompanied with griping pains, and mucous and bloody evacuations.
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Ebullition: A sudden outburst; of passion.
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Efficacy: Power or capacity to produce effects; power to effect the object intended.
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Emeried: To rub or polish with emery; to coat with emery. Past-tense of Emery.
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Equanimity: Evenness of mind or temper; the quality or condition of being undistributed by elation, depression, or agitation emotion. 
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Execrated: accursed, detested.
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Extirpate: To pull or pluck up by the roots.
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Exudation: The process of exuding; the giving off or oozing out.
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Febris: Latin for fever
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Fervent: Of persons, their passions, dispositions, or actions: Ardent, intensely earnest. From 17th cent. almost exclusively with reference to love or hatred, zeal, devotion, or aspiration.
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Fibrin: Originally: an albuminoid or protein compound substance found in animal matter; coagulable lymph. In modern use: an insoluble protein, formed from fibrinogen during blood clotting, which polymerizes to give the network of the clot.
An insoluble protein, formed from fibrinogen during blood clotting, which polymerizes to give the network of the clot.
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Filial: Of or pertaining to a son or daughter.
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Folly: foolishness or deficiency in understanding; lack of good sense.
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Frivolous: Characterized by lack of seriousness, sense, or reverence; given to trifling, silly.
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Gall: Bitterness of spirit
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Garrison: (a) A fortress or stronghold. Obsolete.  (b) (from sense 4) A place in which troops are quartered for defensive or other military purposes; a garrison-town.
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Haggard: Chiefly Irish English and Manx English.
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Hansom: A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage accommodating two inside, with the driver seated behind.
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Hasheesh: Cannabis resin, used esp. as a recreational drug. Also (less commonly): a dried preparation of the flowering tops or other parts of the cannabis plant used in this way.
Source: OED
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Helpmeet: A fitting or suitable helper; a helpmate: usually applied to a wife of husband.
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Hitherto: Up to this time, until now, yet
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Homoeopath: One who practices or advocates a system of medical practice founded by Hahnemann of Leipzig about 1796, according to which diseases are treated by the administration (usually in very small doses) of drugs which would produce in a healthy person symptom closely resembling those of the disease treated.
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Hydragogue: Having the property of removing accumulations of water or serum, or of causing watery evacuations.
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Hydrocele: A tumour with a collection of serous fluid.
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Hyperaemia: An excessive accumulation of blood in a particular part, arising either from increased flow through the arteries; or from obstruction in a vein; congestion.
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Ignominious: Esp. of persons: deserving public disgrace or dishonor; held in contempt, contemptible.
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Importunate: Of a person: persistent or pressing in making requests or offers, esp. to an irritating or distressing degree.
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Importunity: A request, demand, or offer made persistently or pressingly, esp. so as to cause irritation or distress.
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Indefatigably: In an indefatigable manner; unweariedly; with unremitting perseverance (Used in 1887).
Source: From OED

Indisposition: The state of not being mentally disposed, or ‘in the mind’ (to something, or to do something); disinclination, unwillingness.
Source: OED Online
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Indolent: Of persons, their disposition, action, etc.: Averse to toil or exertion; slothful, lazy, idle.
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Induration: The action of hardening.
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Infidel: One who does not believe in (what the speaker holds to be) the true religion; an ‘unbeliever’. Obsolete. From a Christian point of view: An adherent of a religion opposed to Christianity; esp. a Muslim, a Saracen (the earliest sense in English); also (more rarely), applied to a Jew, or a pagan. Now chiefly Historical.
Source: OED
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Inspissated: Brought to a thick consistency, thickened.
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Inveterate: Of evil feelings, prejudices, and the like.
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Laud: Praise, high commendation.
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Lesion: Injury; damage; hurt. Also: a wound or injury; a blemish, flaw, or hurt.
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Levity: Humor or lack of seriousness, especially during a serious occasion. 
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Maladies: A specific kind of illness; an ailment, a disease.
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Malady: Ill health, sickness, disease.
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Medical Jurisprudence: The law as it relates to the practice of medicine; (formerly also) †the application of medical knowledge to legal problems, forensic medicine (obsolete).
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Neuralgia: Pain, typically stabbing or burning, in the area served by a nerve.
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Oedema: The localized of generalized accumulation of excessive fluid in tissues or body cavities.
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Orifice: An opening or aperture, esp. one forming the communication between a cavity or hollow organ and the surface of an animal or plant body.
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Paroxysm: An episode of increased acuteness or severity of a disease, esp. one recurring periodically in the course of the disease; a sudden recurrence or attack, e.g., of coughing; a sudden worsening of symptoms.
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Parturition: Chiefly technical and literary. The action of giving birth to young; childbirth. Also: a confinement.
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Pathos: An expression or utterances that evoke sadness or sympathy, esp. In a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature. 
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Pence: any of various monetary units or coins of the British Isles, usually of equal or similar value to the penny. 
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Penetration: The action, or an act, of penetrating, piercing, or passing into or through something. Occasionally also: permeation, as of one fluid by another (Used in 1856).
Source: OED
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Penitential: The signs, utterances, or behavior of a penitent, expressions of penitence or apology. 
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Peremptory: Admitting no debate; decisive, conclusive.
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Pleurisy: Pain in the chest or the side, esp. When stabbing in nature and exacerbated by inspiration or coughing.
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Potash: purified potassium carbonate.
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Post-mortem: After death.
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Premonitory: Giving or conveying premonition, that is a premonition; serving to warn or notify beforehand.
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Profligate: Recklessly extravagant, esp. with money; wasteful.
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Prostration: The act of falling forward with the face down.
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Purgative: The use of medicine such as a laxative to clean out the bowels.
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Quackery: Dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine.
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Quiescent: In a state or condition of quietness; motionless; inactive; dormant.
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Quotidian: Recurring or occurring every day, spec. At twenty-four-hour intervals; (of disease, esp. Malaria) characterized by paroxysms recurring at this interval.
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Rancorous: Characterized by bitterness or resentment.
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Ranula: A tumour or swelling located in the floor of the mouth beneath the tongue.
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Rebuke: Shame, disgrace, obsolete.
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Redeemer: A person who saves another or others from sin or damnation; spec. (with capital and frequently with the) God or Christ
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Remittent: Chiefly Medicine.  (Of a disease or symptom) that remits; spec.  Designating a fever in which the patient’s temperature periodically rises and falls without returning to normal.
A bitter alkaloid found in cinchona bark; a drug containing this or any of several of its derivatives, employed in the treatment of malaria and (in early use) as a general febrifuge and tonic.   
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Remuneration: Reward, recompense; (now usually) money paid for work or a service; payment, pay.
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Reproach: To subject (a person) to reproach or censure; to upbraid, reprove, or rebuke; †to revile, abuse
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Repudiate: Reject.
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Rheumatism: Pain or stiffness in joints, muscles, or related components of the musculoskeletal system.
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Right hypochondriac region: The right most portion of the abdomen is located below the ribcage.  Contains the liver, gallbladder, portal vein, and the right side of the colon.
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Sabbath: Since the Reformation, often applied to ‘the Lord’s day’, i.e. the first day of the week (Sunday) observed by Christians in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ.
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Sac: A baglike organ or structure.
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Salubrity: The quality of being salubrious or healthful.
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Salutary: Conducive to well-being, calculated to bring about a more satisfactory condition.
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Scarification: To make a number of scratches or slight incisions in (a portion of the body, a wound).
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Scorner: One who scorns, derides, mocks or contemns; esp. one who scoffs at religion.
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Sequela: Pathology.  A morbid affection occurring as the result of a previous disease.
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Sinapism: A plaster or poultice consisting wholly or partly of mustard flour; a mustard plaster.
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Slough: Diseased tissue that has come away or fallen off.

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Soda: Sodium bicarbonate.
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SOT: A habitual drunkard
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Subsoil: The stratum of soil lying immediately under the surface soil, or beneath the normal depth of disturbance by cultivation; soil from this stratum; (also) a particular example of this.
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Sylver: This spelling of “Silver” occurred in English books between the 1800s and 2008.
Source: SpellCheck
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Tare: A name given to some species of vetch: in early times, esp. to those occurring as weeds in cornfields.
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Temperance Tracts: (early 1800’s) A movement to limit drinking in the United States, advocates claimed it led to poverty and domestic violence.
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Threepenny: Costing or worth three pence, before decimalization (1971); trifiling or paltry; of little worth.
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Thy vs. Thee: “Thy” is an English word that means “your” in second person singular
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“Thee” is the singular
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Topography: The science or practice of describing a particular place, city, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; the accurate and detailed delineation and description of any locality.
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Villanous: Having the character or disposition of a villain; infamously depraved or wicked; vilely criminal (Used in 1855). Of actions: Of the nature of villainy; marked by depravity or vileness of conduct; deserving severe condemnation on moral grounds (Used in 1846). Extremely bad or objectionable; atrocious, detestable (Used in 1853).
Source: OED
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Viscera: The entrails or bowels together with the heart, liver, lungs, etc.
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Vitiated: To deflower or violate (a woman).
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Viz: used, especially in written English, when you want to give more detail or be more exact about something you have just written.
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Zeal: In Biblical language, as an attribute of God: passionate love or care which will tolerate no unfaithfulness or disobedience. 
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