| 单词 | great pox |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat pox great pox n. now historical = syphilis n. 1a; cf. earlier great pock n., French pox n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, and smallpox n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > syphilis foul evila1398 grandgore1497 French disease1503 French pox1503 pox1503 great pocka1519 great pox1529 morbus gallicus1543 gore1554 marbles1592 verol1596 Spanish pox1600 verola1600 the foul evil1607 bube1608 grincome1608 Neapolitan1631 lues1634 scabbado1651 venereal syphilis1653 foul disease1680 gout1694 syphilid1829 syphiloid1833 syphiloderma1850 vaccino-syphilis1868 neurosyphilis1878 old ral1878 syph1914 bejel1928 cosmic disease- 1529 in Ld. Herbert Henry VIII (1649) 267 The same Lord Cardinall [sc. Wolsey] knowing himself to have the foule, and contagious Disease of the Great Pox, broken out upon him in divers places of this body, came daily to your Grace. 1595 T. W. tr. P. Leroy et al. Pleasant Satyre 56 I say not therefore to heale the kings euill or great poxe (wherewith his Southerly countries are very sore infected) hee maketh not any reckoning of the prayers of the deuout inhabitants of his good towne of Paris. 1655 Woodall's Surgeons Mate (new ed.) Preface sig. B2v Of necessitie he [sc. the Surgeon] must not be forbidden lawfull practice, otherwise how shall he well perform his scope of healing,..where Physicians either are not at hand, or will not come, as when and where contagious diseases happen, namely, the small and great pox, or the pestilence, &c. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 352 The great Pox, which can scarce ever be cur'd without Viperals or Mercurials. a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan i. cxxx, in Wks. (1833) XV. 163 I said the small-pox has gone out of late; Perhaps it may be follow'd by the great. 1928 Milbank Memorial Fund Q. Bull. 6 62 Great pox, like small pox, is a deadly enemy to the community. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts i. 13 The fact that some of the Spanish soldiers had accompanied Columbus suggested an American origin for the ‘great pox’. < as lemmas |
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