a. In 6 canserous. [f. CANCER sb. + -OUS.] Of the nature of cancer; affected with cancer.
1563. T. Gale, Antidot., II. 20. Canserous vlcerations.
1681. Glanvill, Sadducismus, 91. Cancerous Knots in the breast.
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (1807), 198. When a portion of the intestinal canal becomes cancerous.
1872. Cohen, Dis. Throat, 125. Cancerous tumors … occur in the tonsils.
fig. 1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., 200. Frustrate those cancerous close arts.
1720. Welton, Suffer. Son of God, II. xxi. 591. Cancerous and Calumniating Hearts.
1868. Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, 317. Remorse was born within him, cancerous, Forcing each pulse to feed its anguish.
