单词 | plagueful |
释义 | plaguefuladj. Conveying or threatening plague or disease; pestilent. Also in weakened use: annoying, troublesome. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [adjective] pestilentialc1425 pestilentiousc1440 plaguey1574 plagueful1594 pestful1608 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 141 Ruddy his eyes and plaguefull venomy. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 153 A plague-full humour and fell banefull breath..Poures forth her poyson. 1610 R. Niccols Winter Nights Vision in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) King John. xxix Plaguefull meteors did..appeare. 1798 H. Brand Adelinda i. v, in Plays & Poems 258 That Cousin of mine is as plagueful as a Ghost in a haunted house. 1941 Iowa City Press-Citizen 6 Sept. 4/6 On reaching their destinations, they found the disease as plagueful as here. 1986 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 106 446/1 The animals are thus appeasement and substitute offerings to the angry divinity to divert his plagueful wrath away from the army. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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