Pestilence
11pestilence — Pestilence, Pestilentia …
12pestilence — ► NOUN archaic ▪ a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague. ORIGIN Latin pestilentia, from pestis a plague …
13pestilence — [pes′tə ləns] n. [OFr < L pestilentia < pestilens: see PESTILENT] 1. any virulent or fatal contagious or infectious disease, esp. one of epidemic proportions, as bubonic plague 2. anything, as a doctrine, regarded as harmful or dangerous …
14Pestilence — A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. The word can also be used about parasites causing large scale sickness and death, such as Guinea worm. Originally the word referred to the… …
15pestilence — (pè sti lan s ) s. f. 1° Peste ou maladie contagieuse répandue dans un pays (vieilli en ce sens). En un temps de pestilence. 2° Fig. Terme de l Écriture et de théologie. Chaire de pestilence, chaire où l on professe une mauvaise doctrine.… …
16Pestilence — The pestilence referred to the bubonic plague and it now refers to any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating. The plague was, a highly contagious, infectious, virulent, devastating disease due to a… …
17PESTILENCE — s. f. Corruption de l air, peste répandue dans un pays. Dans un temps de pestilence. Il est vieux en ce sens. Fig. et en termes de l Écriture, Être assis dans la chaire de pestilence, Professer une mauvaise doctrine …
18PESTILENCE — n. f. Peste répandue dans un pays, corruption de l’air. Dans un temps de pestilence. Il est vieux. Fig. et en termes de l’écriture, être assis dans la chaire de pestilence, Professer une mauvaise doctrine …
19pestilence — UK [ˈpestɪləns] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms pestilence : singular pestilence plural pestilences literary a serious disease that spreads fast and kills many people …
20pestilence — noun Date: 14th century 1. a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating; especially bubonic plague 2. something that is destructive or pernicious < I ll pour this pestilence into his ear Shakespeare > …
