cankered (2 and 3 very freq. in the 16th cent.)
1.
rusted, corroded, tarnished 2H4 IV. v. 70
The canker'd heaps of
strange-achieved gold<*>
2.
infected with evil,
corrupt Cor. IV. <*>7 “I'll fight against my canker'd
country.”
3.
malignant John II. i. 194, 1H4 I.
<*>. 137,
Rom. I. i. 101
“your canker'd
hate.”
