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Pestilence
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What's The Definition Of Pestilence?
[n] a pernicious evil influence
[n] any epidemic disease with a high death rate Synonyms | Synonyms for Pestilence: plague Related Terms | Find terms related to Pestilence: affliction | ambulatory plague | bane | Black Death | black plague | blight | bubonic plague | bugbear | burden | calamity | cancer | canker | cellulocutaneous plague | crushing burden | curse | death | defervescing plague | destruction | disease | epidemic | epiphytotic | epizootic | evil | glandular plague | grievance | harm | hemorrhagic plague | infliction | larval plague | murrain | nemesis | open wound | pandemia | pandemic | pest | pesthole | plague | plague spot | pneumonic plague | premonitory plague | running sore | scourge | septicemic plague | siderating plague | thorn | torment | tuberculosis | vexation | visitation | white plague | woe See Also | epidemic disease | influence Pestilence In Webster's Dictionary \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.
The pestilence That walketh in darkness. --Ps. xci.
6.
2. Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to
the moral character of great numbers.
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. --Shak.
{Pestilence weed} (Bot.), the butterbur coltsfoot ({Petasites
vulgaris}), so called because formerly considered a remedy
for the plague. --Dr. Prior.
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