a. [f. L. carbuncul-us CARBUNCLE + -AR1.] Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by carbuncles.
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, II. 78. Who ow’d the carbuncular Richness of their Phyz to … Drinking.
1754. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann, No. 252 (1834), III. 63. Such a carbuncular state of blood as carried off my brother.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, viii. Sticking his fork into a carbuncular potatoe.
1882. Pop. Sci. Monthly, 422. Carbuncular germs in the soil.
