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SEP'TICAL,

1. Having power to promote putrefacation. Many experiments were made by Sir John Pringle to ascertain the septic and anteseptic virtues of natural bodies.

2. Proceeding from or generated by putrefaction; as septic acid.

SEP'TIC, n. A substance that promotes the putrefaction of bodies.

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