The Only Use of
fester
in
Romeo and Juliet
- Or, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,—As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for this many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd;
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;—Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking,—what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad;—†p. 202.5festering = (of an injury) getting inflammation and creating pus OR (generally) getting worse -- especially through inattention
Definition:
to grow worse or more intense over time, especially when ignored; or, in the case of a wound, to become inflamed and filled with pus