v. [f. L. cancerāt-us cancerous.] intr. To become cancerous, to grow into a cancer. Hence Cancerated ppl. a.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 426/1. Breasts … Cancerated.
1694. R. L’Estrange, Fables, 95. But striking his fist upon the point of a nail in the wall, his hand cancerated.
1736. Burton, Cancers, II. in Phil. Trans., XLII. 110. The Right Lobe of the Lungs was full of scirrhous cancerated Tubercles.
1814. J. Gilchrist, Reason Arbiter Lang., 64. I would thank any man to put a cover on a cancerated nose.
