2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

Syn. -- Diseased; sickly; sick. -- Morbid, Diseased. Morbid is

sometimes used interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly applied,

in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a prolonged nature; as, a

morbid condition of the nervous system; a morbid sensibility, etc.

||Mor`bi*dez"za (?), n. [It., softness, delicacy. See Morbid.] 1. (Fine

||Arts) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.

2. (Mus.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with

extreme delicacy. Ludden.

Mor*bid"i*ty (?), n. 1. The quality or state of being morbid.