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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

cariosus

, fr.

caries

dacay.]

Affected with caries; decaying;

as, a

carious

tooth

Adj.

Mortified; corrupted; ulcerated; as a bone.

carious ‎(comparative more carious, superlative most carious)

Having caries; decayed.
- 1806 March 10, Fisher Ames, “Letter to Thomas Pickering”, in Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends, published 1809, page 512:
  It is not the skin that festers — our very bones are carious, and their marrow blackens with gangrene.
- 1840 William Percivall, Hippopathology: a treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse
  My father's museum contained several preparations of carious teeth.