单词 | empestation |
释义 | > as lemmasempeˈstation empeˈstation n. rare infection with plague, pestilence, etc.; contagion. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > infecting with empestation1844 1844 B. G. Babington tr. J. F. C. Hecker Epidemics Middle Ages (new ed.) 233 It may..be supposed, that they took with them to that city fresh germs of plague... The same attempt at impestation [Ger. derselbe unheilbringende Versuch] had been already often made in earlier times. 1980 J. T. Alexander Bubonic Plague in Early Mod. Russia (2003) i. 11 Some terms implied contagion by roots related to air: for example, morovoe povetrie (pestilential contagion or lethal air),..and zapovetrie (miasm or impestation). < as lemmas |
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