fomes
IPA: foʊmz
noun
- (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
- (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
- (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
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Examples of "fomes" in Sentences
- In the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests are characterized by Heritiera fomes, a species valued for its timber.
- But the lessening of the fomes, which is the law of sin, is set down as an effect not of this sacrament, but rather of Baptism.
- Virgin Mother's or anyone else's flesh should be without the fomes, which is called "the law of the flesh" or "of the members" (Rom.
- I am verrah ecksited to have him comin to my plase next week insted of pore Simon gettin so upset he fomes at teh mowth an soyls himself in teh carryur!
- Unlike the latter, the Rhizophoraceae are of only minor importance and the dominant species are sundri Heritiera fomes, from which the Sundarbans takes its name, and gewa Excoecaria agallocha.
- Heritiera fomes is scattered over areas of higher elevation, along with keora Sonneratia apetala, gengwa Excoecaria agallocha, dhundul Carapa obovata and the date palm or hental Phoenix paludosa.
- The entire mangrove forest extends over an area of 4,262 km2, of which 2,320 km2 is forest and the rest is water, and is called Sundarban owing to the dominance of the tree species Heritiera fomes, locally known as 'sundari' because of its elegance.
- And although the grace of her sanctification contributed to this effect, yet it did not suffice; for otherwise the result of her sanctification would have been to render impossible in her any sensual movement not preceded by an act of reason, and thus she would not have had the fomes, which is contrary to what we have said above (A. 3).
- The Council of Trent lays down the doctrine of the Church with great clearness, in the following words: This holy synod confesses that concupiscence of the fuel of sin fomes peccati remains in the baptized; but since it is left that they may strive against it, it cannot hurt those who give no consent, but resist manfully by the grace of Jesus Christ; nay, more, he who strives lawfully will be crowned.
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