| 单词 | the pestilence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe pestilence a. A fatal epidemic or disease, affecting people or animals; a plague; spec. (frequently in the pestilence) bubonic plague. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] manqualmeOE deathOE starveOE woundc1369 pestilencea1382 murraina1387 mortality?a1425 plaguea1475 pest1479 cladec1480 traik1513 mortalness1530 pestility1570 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > bubonic plague pestilencea1382 plague1522 cannikin1612 black plague1626 Black Death1755 bubonic plague1803 bubo plague1833 bubonic1901 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Jer. xxvii. 13 Whi shul ȝee dien, þou & þi puple, with swerd & hunger & pestilence [L. peste]? a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1370 (MED) Yn Rome fyl a grete moreyne, A pestelens [v.rr. pestlensse; man-qualm] of men. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. 1617 (MED) Tancret deide of pestilence. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 360 In the Citee of Rome befille a grete pestilence of men and bestes. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 56 Lyke as a pestylens..destroyth a grete nombur of the pepul wyth out regard of any person had or degre. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Feuer Pestilence (new ed.) sig. Aviiv I met with wagons..full laden with young barnes, for feare of the blacke Pestilence. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. viii. 326 About an hundred yeeres ago, all the monks of this monasterie died of a pestilence. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pestilence or Plague, a Disease arising from an Infection in the Air, accompany'd with Blotches, Boils, and..other dreadful Symptoms. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 485 Should a pestilence come, and sweep off one half of the people. 1823 ‘Mrs. Markham’ Hist. Eng. (1853) xviii. 160 During the great pestilence he bought a piece of ground, which he gave for a burying-ground for those who died in London of that dreadful disease. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 394 In the winter of 1830–31.., where the pestilence was most rife, the existing race of sheep was almost entirely swept off. 1865 Cornhill Mag. May 591 To be entitled to the name of pestilence, a disease must be unusually fatal, very rapid in its operation, and must destroy great numbers of victims. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 195/1 The fierce Winnebago west of Lake Michigan were crushed by pestilence and by a war they provoked with the Illinois. 1994 Laywitness Sept. 2/1 There will be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in various places. < as lemmas |
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