Both Uses
fester
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- 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. 202.5 * - 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. 193.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(fester) 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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)