plague
21Plague — The Great Plague ravaged London, and other places, in 1665/6, and as with all major events generated its own set of beliefs and customs at the time, and also reverberating ever since. We are fortunate to have in Daniel Defoe s A Journal of the …
22plague — {{11}}plague (n.) late 14c., affliction, calamity, evil, scourge, also malignant disease, from M.Fr. plague, from L.L. plaga, used in Vulgate for pestilence, from L. plaga stroke, wound, probably from root of plangere to strike, lament (by… …
23plague — 1 noun 1 (C, U) an attack of a disease that causes death and spreads quickly to a large number of people: Europe suffered many plagues in the Middle Ages. 2 (U) also the plague a very infectious disease that produces high fever and swellings on… …
24Plague — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Plague, qui signifie peste en anglais, peut faire référence à : Plague, un Morlock ; Plague, un film de Ed Hunt de 1978. Plagues peut faire… …
25Plague — This plague swept across western and central Europe during the fourteenth century, killing about one third of the 60,000,000 people living in that area. Needless to say, it destroyed the economy of affected areas. The cost of labor went up,… …
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26plague — n. 1) bubonic plague 2) a plague spreads 3) (misc.) to avoid smb. like the plague * * * [pleɪg] (misc.) to avoid smb. like the plague a plague spreads bubonicplague …
27plague — 1. noun 1) they died of the plague Syn: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, Black Death; disease, sickness, epidemic; dated contagion; archaic pestilence 2) a plague of fleas Syn: infestation, epidemic, invasion, swarm …
28Plague 99 — Infobox Book name = Plague 99 image caption = author = Jean Ure country = UK publisher = Methuen pub date = July 1989 pages = 160 isbn = 0 15 262429 5 followed by = Come Lucky April Plague 99 (ISBN 0 15 262429 5) is a 1989 novel written by Jean… …
29plague — 1. noun /pleɪɡ/ a) (used absolutely, usually capitalized: The Pest) The pestilent disease Plague , caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis and mostly known by its variant form bubonic plague. Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from …
30plague — noun 1》 a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague). 2》 an unusually large number of insects or animals… …
