2. Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.

-- Pu``tre*fac"tive*ness, n.

Pu"tre*fy (?), v. t. [Written also putrify.] [imp. & p. p. Putrefied

(&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Putrefying (&?;).] [F. putrÈfier; L. putrere to

be rotten + - ficare (in. comp.) to make; cf. L. putrefacere. See

Putrid, and -fy.] 1. To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively;

to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.