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Webster 1913 Edition

Sordid

Sor′did

,
Adj.
[L.
sordidus
, fr.
sordere
to be filthy or dirty; probably akin to E.
swart
: cf. F.
sordide
. See
Swart
,
Adj.
]
1.
Filthy; foul; dirty.
[Obs.]
A
sordid
god; down from his hoary chin
A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
Dryden.
2.
Vile; base; gross; mean;
as, vulgar,
sordid
mortals
.
“To scorn the sordid world.”
Milton.
3.
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
He may be old,
And yet
sordid
, who refuses gold.
Sir J. Denham.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sordid

SOR'DID

,
Adj.
[L. sordidus, form sordes, filth.]
1.
Filthy; foul; dirty; gross. There Charon stands a sordid god. [This literal sense is nearly obsolete.]
2.
Vile; base; mean; as vulgar, sordid mortals.
3.
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old and yet not sordid, who refuses gold.

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