单词 | great pock |
释义 | > as lemmasgreat pock great pock n. now historical and rare (in singular or plural) = great pox n.; (also) an individual skin lesion of syphilis. ΚΠ a1519 J. Colet Ryght Frutefull Monycion (1534) 6 And in especyall, call to remembraunce the meruailous and horryble punysshment of the abhominable great pockes, dayly apperynge to our sightes, growynge in & vpon mannes flesshe. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xxiv Such bold presumptuouse beggars as he ys in dede, hole & strong in body but weke & syk in soule, yt haue theyr bodys clene fro skabbys and theyr soulys foule infect wyth vgly great pokkys & leprye. 1693 G. Powell Very Good Wife v. 43 Where be de great House, and de great Ditch, and de great Whore, and de great Pock now, you Son of a great Irish Bogtrotting Bitch. 1865 T. K. Chambers Renewal of Life (new ed.) 148 The reckoning of the days of latency and the history of the progress of the eruption will alone save you from falling into our forefathers' original error of confounding the ‘small’ and the ‘great’ pocks in babies. 1953 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 Jan. 283/1 On January 13 Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur opened a discussion on ‘The Small Pocks and the Great Pocks’. < as lemmas |
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