Both Uses of
moribund
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …(57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to…†
Chpt 17
- Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(moribund) without force or vitality; or nearly dead