morbid vs morbific

morbid

adj
  • Of, or relating to disease. 

  • Grisly or gruesome. 

  • Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish. 

  • Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. 

morbific

adj
  • Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. 

  • That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. 

How often have the words morbid and morbific occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )