单词 | plague bill |
释义 | > as lemmasplague bill plague bill n. now historical an official return or report of the deaths caused by the plague in a district. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > of deaths due to the plague plague bill1596 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O2 He did for him that eloquant post-script for the Plague Bills, where he talkes of the series the classes, & the premisses, & presenting them with an exacter methode hereafter, if it please God the Plague continue. 1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley iv. i I dare not walke the streets, For I dwindle at a Sargeant in buffe Almost as much as a new Player does At a plague bill certified forty. 1858 J. Munsell Every Day Bk. Hist. & Chronol. 298/2 1625. The week's plague bill in London returns 2,471. 1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. 295 There are two other plague-bills extant, for August 1535. 1995 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Feb. Rats ran everywhere, and the bacilli their fleas carried kept the reservoir of disease brimming. Broadside plague bills were preprinted by the authorities, with blanks to be filled in. < as lemmas |
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