leprosiedadj.
/ˈlɛprəsɪd/, U.S. /ˈlɛprəsid/ Affected with leprosy, leprous. Originally and chiefly figurative: tainted, vilely affected.
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1709 Brit. Apollo 16–21 Sept. They're Leprosy'd with Scandal.
1798 T. Dutton tr. F. Nicolai Life & Opinions Sebaldus Nothanker II. iv. i. 4 We are leprosied with sin from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot.
1821 Brit. Critic Aug. 122 Because the hands of evil men were dipped deep in blood and leprosied with sacrilege, we are assured that the work which they effected far exceeded in virtue the sober and solemn act of the good and great.
1840 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 26 Dec. 390/1 She felt the necessity of covering it up in the folds of the veil, as if it had been leprosied.
1859 Afr. Repository Sept. 269/2 Others are mentioned as leprosied, blind, or having scrofula in some form or other.
1869 Brit. Controversialist 3rd Ser. 433 A lie lives a leprosied life.
1905 E. V. Cooke in Bk. Royal Blue (Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) Aug. 20/1 I decline your double-eagles, which are jaundiced on their face; I decline your silver sinkers, which are leprosied and base.
1982 D. Ryan Looking for Kathmandu xii. 149 Beggars with leprosied hands on the platforms shrieked out for alms.
2001 G. Steiner Grammars of Creation (2002) 202 Language is leprosied with cliché, with individual and social hypocrisy, with glib imprecision.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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