单词 | great death |
释义 | > as lemmasgreat death 6. With distinguishing word, esp. in great death. Widespread mortality, esp. when caused by epidemic disease; an instance of this; an (outbreak of) epidemic disease causing such mortality, esp. plague (plague n. 3c). Now historical.spotted death, white death: see the first element. See also Black Death n. 1. 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 OE Wulfstan Homily: Be Mistlican Gelimpan (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 172 Gif hit gewyrþe, þæt on þeodscipe becume healic ongelimp.., manncwealm oððe orfcwealm.., oþþe færlic coþa oþþe færlic deaþ, þonne sece man a þa bote to gode sylfum. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 161 Þis manere was moche i-vsed to for firste deth [c1410 BL Add. þe firste moreyn]. a1450 T. Walsingham Historia Anglicana (1863) I. 410 Gode and Seynt Mango, Seynt Romayne and Seynt Andreu scheld us this day fro..the foule deth that Ynglessh men dyene upon. a1500 ( Chron. H. Knighton (1895) II. 62 Scoti..sumpserunt in juramentum..sub hac forma, quando jurare volebant: ‘Per foedam mortem Anglorum,’ Anglice, ‘be the foul deth of Englond’. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 29 Thys yere was a gret deth at the Menerys. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1591/2 In this yeare a great death of the Pestilence reigned in London. 1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air II. 12 A great Death of Cattle began this Year. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xv. 297 Here it was for thirty years the practice to head the list of the expenses of the manor with the account of the lives which were lost and the tenancies which were vacated by the great death of 1348. 1992 R. Wright Stolen Continents (1993) 351 In some isolated areas, such as Canada's north and parts of the Amazon, the great death did not strike until much later. 2001 S. Martin Black Death vii. 82 The second outbreak [in 1361] became known as the Grey Death or the Children's Plague. < as lemmas |
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