morbid

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOR'BID, adjective [Latin morbidus, form morbus, a disease, from the root of morior, to die.] Diseased; sickly; not sound and healthful; as morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant; a morbid sensibility.
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