adjective

• Causing disease.

  ‘in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In this way morbific agents can be transferred through the feed from animals of one cage to animals in other cages.’
  • ‘They were victims of morbific agents encountered at work.’
  • ‘Heart disease is an affection of the heart brought on by morbific agents turned loose in the blood from imperfect digestion.’