Found 3 items, similar to Pestilence.
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Definition: pestilence
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Definition: pestilence
pestilence
n 1: any epidemic disease with a high death rate [syn:
plague]
2: a pernicious evil influence
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pestilence
Pestilence
\Pes"ti*lence\, n. [F. pestilence, L. pestilentia.
See
Pestilent.]
1. Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any
contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent
and devastating.
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The pestilence That walketh in darkness. --Ps. xci.
6.
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2. Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to
the moral character of great numbers.
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I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. --Shak.
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Pestilence weed (Bot.), the butterbur coltsfoot (
Petasites vulgaris
), so called because formerly considered a remedy
for the plague. --Dr. Prior.
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