SEP'TICAL, 1. Having power to promote putrefacation. Many experiments were made by Sir John Pringle to ascertain the septic and anteseptic virtues of natural bodies. 2. Proceeding from or generated by putrefaction; as septic acid. SEP'TIC, noun A substance that promotes the putrefaction of bodies.
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