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Fes"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.] 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
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Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.
Milton.
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Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South.
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Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.
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2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
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Fes`ter, v. t. To cause to fester or rankle.
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For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
And festered ranking malice in my breast.
Marston.
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Fes"ter, n. [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.] 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
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2. A festering or rankling.
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The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
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