单词 | lepry |
释义 | † lepryn. Obsolete. 1. = leprosy n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > leprosy spittle-evil?c1225 leperc1275 meselrya1387 lepraa1398 mesela1400 leprosy?a1450 leprosityc1451 lepryc1475 leperhood1491 leperhead1493 leprousnessa1500 lazaryc1503 meselnessc1520 tyre1547 lepernessa1557 satyriasis1587 lazarousness1648 leontiasis1753 cocobay1788 Hansen's disease1938 c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 43 If any of this courte be infected with leperiȝ or pestylence. 1496 Myracles oure Blessyd Lady (de Worde) sig. Civ He blamed hym selfe by the sorowe of compunctyon & what someuer of leprye he had in his face, commytted it deuoutly to our lordes mercy. ?1506 Thystorye vii. Wyse Maysters Rome (new ed.) sig. Ov O wyfe had ye leuer haue your chyldern dede than alexander shold be in yt sekenesse of lepery. 1526 Grete Herball iii. sig. A.iiv/2 Golde hath vertue to conforte & to clense, and therfore it is good agaynst elefance, that is a spece of lepery. ?1554 Lydgate's Fall of Prynces (new ed.) ii. xvii. f. liiv/1 (heading) God toke vengeaunce & smote him with leprie. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xxiii. 215/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I This [spring] is good for scabs and leaperie. 1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph ii. 38 And consequently, the Donation pretended to be giuen to Siluester, and the curing of Constantines supposed Leprie, can not stand togeather with the same. 1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 173 It doth most readily take away the Pthisis, and all diseases arising from the Lungs, the Asthma, the Cough, Lepry, and Lues venerea. 1736 N. Robinson New Treat. Venereal Dis. 43 Now this Passage is so far from proving that the Burning or Brenning was the same, with the French Pockes or Pox, or Lepry, that it evidently makes them three distinct Diseases. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts: = leprosy n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [noun] fenc897 foulnessOE foulhead1340 filthiness?1504 lepry1526 fedity1542 leprosy?1555 fulsomeness1563 disdain1590 obscenitya1618 sewer1647 fetidness1704 putridity1823 fetidity1829 disgustingness1851 feculence1860 grunginess1978 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > a morbid moral condition rusteOE maladyc1385 disease1509 lepry1526 boil1537 leprosy?1555 imposthume1565 gangrene1588 ulcer1592 diseasedness1614 lesion1640 unwholesomeness1881 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kiiii Where is worse leprey than propertie in religion. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xxiv Theyr bodys clene fro skabbys and theyr soulys foule infect wyth vgly great pokkys & leprye. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme li. 24 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 50 Thie Hisop..shall clense the leaprie of my mind. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 16 Their breath is contagious, their leprey spreading. 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica i. f. 29v A spiritual Lepry which hereditarily infects the whol Man. Derivatives lepry-like adj. ΚΠ 1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 663 Rough, hard, mangy, or leprie-like [1608: lepros-like] nails. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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