leprousadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlɛprəs/, U.S.

/ˈlɛprəs/

Forms: Middle English leperus, Middle English lepourous (in a late copy), Middle English lepres, Middle English lepros, Middle English leprows, Middle English leprus, Middle English lepruse, Middle English leprys, Middle English luprus (probably transmission error), Middle English–1500s leprouse, Middle English–1700s leprose, Middle English– leperous (now nonstandard), Middle English– leprous, 1500s leporouse, 1500s lyporous, 1500s lyporouse, 1500s–1600s leaperous, 1500s–1600s leaporous, 1500s–1600s leaprous, 1500s–1600s leporous; also Scottish pre-1700 leaprous, pre-1700 leaprouse, pre-1700 leperous, pre-1700 leprois, pre-1700 lepros, pre-1700 leprose, pre-1700 leprous, pre-1700 leprouse, pre-1700 liperous, pre-1700 lipperous, pre-1700 lipros.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French leprus.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman leprus, leperous, leperus, lepuros, lieprous, lieprus, Anglo-Norman and Old French leprous, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French lepros (Middle French lepreux , French lépreux ) (adjective) affected with leprosy, (noun) leper (11th cent.); and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin leprosus (adjective) affected with leprosy (Vetus Latina, Vulgate; late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), (in alchemy, of metals) impure (1583 or earlier), (noun) leper (Vetus Latina, Vulgate; late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < classical Latin lepra leprosy (see lepra n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Catalan llebrós (14th cent.), Spanish leproso (13th cent.), Portuguese leproso (15th cent.), Italian lebbroso (13th cent. as leproso ). Compare later leprose adj.In Simon leprous (compare quotations c1300, 1483 at sense A. 1a) after post-classical Latin Simon leprosus (Vulgate: Matthew 26:6, Mark 14:1); the King James Bible (1611) has ‘Simon the leper’.

A. adj.

a. Of a person or part of the body: affected with leprosy (leprosy n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy > afflicted with

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leprosied1840

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 118 Moyses hond..bisemde on þe spitel uuel & þuchte leprus.

c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 79 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 464 A man of þat contreye..heiȝhte symond leperous.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xiii. 46 Al tyme þat he is leprous [a1425 Corpus Oxf. leprows, L. leprosus] & vnclene.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 112 (MED) He cured a ȝong man leprose, in whos face knottes bigan to be made & herez deflued i. fil away.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccxvj^v/1 The hous of Symon leprous where as our lord dyned.

1526 Grete Herball ccci. sig. R.ii/2 The iuce of it [sc. blacke beryes] gadered and tempered w^t y^e syrope made of wylde sauge is good for them that ben leprose.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vi. f. 28^v With the..tortoyses of this Ilande, many leprous men are healed and clensed of theyr leprositie.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. iv. 6 And when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snowe.

1634 Younger Brother's Apol. 50 Bryand Lyle,..hauing two sonnes, both leprous, built for them a Lazaretto or Spitall.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxiv. 87 Leprous Ægyptians, driven from their Country on account of that loathsome Distemper.

1754 J. Cennick Dæmoniac 12 Scarce a blind, or lame, or leprous Person came in his way but he had Compassion on them.

1844 J. J. Weitbrecht Protestant Missions Bengal (ed. 2) iii. 122 Leprous people kill themselves by having a grave dug on the banks; a fire is kindled therein, and the poor wretch throws himself into it.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 271 The children of leprous parents are more likely to become affected [with leprosy] than are the children of healthy parents.

1941 P. White Diary 23 Jan. (1994) ii. 37 Old black beggar women, naked to the waist, with disgusting dugs and leprous feet.

1974 Times 8 Nov. 12/4 The leprous bones were identified by..a physical anthropologist (an expert with skeletons).

2009 Clinics Dermatol. 27 248/2 The Hospitaller Movement..founded hospices..to treat emissaries returning leprous from the Crusades.

b. Resembling leprosy or its symptoms; associated with or symptomatic of leprosy; of or relating to leprosy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy

leprous?1457

leproid1839

lepromatous1938

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > afflicted with

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?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) f. 48, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Squame For leprous squames he hadde Hys leches counsaylde in blode of Innocentes Bene bathed ofte.

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. lxiiij, in Bulwarke of Defence Resolued in Uineger all the night, the same wil clense Leprous filth, and Marmols from the skinne.

a1667 A. Cowley Davideis 58 in Wks. (1668) Leprous scurff o're his whole body cast.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health xix. 617 Leprous Scabby Diseases, Joint-evils, and that which they call the Kings-Evil.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 241 That the whiteness of the Negroe skin..might be called rather a leprous crust than a natural complexion.

1835 N. P. Willis Melanie 89 The dull pulses..beat beneath the hot And leprous scales.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 669 Generating leprous eruptions and similar diseases.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxvi. 421 Nerve stretching..has been strongly advocated..for the cure of leprous neuralgia.

1939 Z. N. Hurston Moses xxxvi. 301 Miriam was a horrible sight in her leprous whiteness.

1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xxxviii. 394 Leprous dyschromias are seen in the pigmentations which are common in the first stage of anæsthetic leprosy.

2005 P. J. Dyck & P. K. Thomas Peripheral Neuropathy (ed. 4) II. cvii. 2422/2 Leprous granulomas do not affect muscles.

†c. Causing leprosy or a condition like leprosy; containing or carrying the contagion of leprosy. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy > causing

leprous1542

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. H.iii For olde beef and kowe flesshe doth ingender melancolye and leporouse humoures.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 64 And through the porches of my eares [he] Did powre the leaprous distilment.

1604 H. Clapham Demaundes & Answeres touching Pestilence 28 The Leprous garmentes were to be burnt, and the houses pulled downe.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 99 Cuckoes Flesh, whilst it is a Nestler, is..highly extolled; but when once it comes to feed it self, it is ill rellishing, hot, and leprous.

1763 London Mag. Dec. 650/1 The spot continued more dangerously infectious to the next comer, than..any leprous house was ever known among the Israelites.

1819 tr. F. Swediaur Comprehensive Treat. Venereal or Syphilitic Dis. I. 156 There are no characteristic marks which enable him to distinguish à priori syphilitic blennorrhagias, either from the herpetic or the leprous virus, or from the gout or some other acrimony.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Having a tainting influence or effect; tainted, repulsive; shunned, cast out. Originally chiefly in religious contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

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unwashed?a1390

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filthy?c1400

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sicka1425

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shitten?1545

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obscene1597

vicious1597

ketty1607

putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt > tainted or contaminated

infecta1387

leprousa1425

contaminatea1555

contaminated1609

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 89 (MED) God wolde þat proude men and leprous heretikes wolden wel confesse þe feiþ, and þan shulden þei be hool.

1565 R. Shacklock tr. S. Hozjusz Hatchet of Heresies f. 2^v It is not farr vnder or ouer an hundred & fourty yeare, since the leprouse learning of the Waldenses hathe infected Boeme.

?1605 R. Dallington Method for Trauell sig. B^v Who so..bringeth home a leprous soule, and a tainted body.

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 493 The leaprous humour of Popery.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiv, in Poems 7 And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould.

1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 274 Heal my leaperous Soul.

1722 E. Haywood Brit. Recluse 42 His black, his leprous Soul.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Poems Var. Subj. 54 Thyself redeeming from that leprous stain Nobility.

1835 C. Caldwell Disc. Vice Gambling 22 Best of all; our moral atmosphere will be cleansed from the leprous poison that infects it.

1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God iii. 65 Her literature..a leprous fiction which poisoned every virtue.

1898 Speaker 26 Mar. 387/1 There was evidence of an imagination that was positively leprous.

1917 G. F. Lydston Impotence & Sterility iii. 31 A large class of sexual perverts are physically abnormal rather than morally leprous.

1997 E. Hoffman Shtetl (2007) v. 216 The cold intent to make the colonized population appear repulsive, to portray them as socially leprous.

3. Alchemy. Esp. of gold or another metal: impure. Cf. leprosity n. 2. Now historical.Chiefly with reference to lead as leprous gold.

ΚΠ

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1223 Leed, of philisophres, is callid gold leprous, Tyn of Iubiter.

a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 802 Þalknamystre treteþe of myneralles, And of metalles..Why somme beo clene, some leprous, and not able.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 58 The phylosophers haue the same [sc. lead] in great esteeme,..they cal it their sunne or leperous gold.

1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 38 The Quintessence of Gold is as to its Quantity, exceeding small; and the residue of it is a leprous body.

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis i. iii. 57 This Metal [sc. lead] seems to consist in part of an impure leprous earth, of a sulphureous nature.

1888 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 22 74 The alchemist seeks to heal the fault of Nature, and to get precious gold from the base lead which Aristotle calls ‘leprous gold’.

2007 L. E. Demaitre Leprosy in Premodern Med. viii. 265 They also entertained the tangential but intriguing notion that lead is leprous gold.

a. Botany. = leprose adj. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [adjective] > having bracts, etc.

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paleaceous1648

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1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 675 The Welch make a red dye, with urine, from another moss of this order, which Dillenius describes..by the name of The large leprous lichenoides with yellow plates.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 68 Its leprous leaves, superior fruit, and apetalous flowers, will at all times distinguish the Oleaster tribe.

1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 470 Leprous..; covered with minute peltate scales.

1884 R. Bentley Student’s Guide Systematic Bot. i. iii. 131 The whole [lichen] is arranged so as to form a foliaceous.., somewhat woody, scaly, crustaceous or leprous, thallus.

1933 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 20 15 Placodium chrysodetum Vain. also has leprous thallus and positive K (violascens) reaction.

1989 Bryologist 92 106/2 Also present are sterile crusts and leprous lichens.

b. Resembling or suggestive of the skin of a person with leprosy; peeling, flaking, crumbling, scabby.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > encrusting > encrusted

crusted1382

incrustated1659

incrustate1671

scurfy1732

crustated1780

encrusted1815

leprous1820

barkened1827

scabrous1939

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 170 Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxi. 109 One old leprous screen of faded India leather.

1866 W. H. Bullock Across Mexico 153 Shuddering at the weariness of the deserted hacienda,..to which a coating of plaster which had half peeled off gave a most leprous appearance.

1901 D. C. Murray Despair's Last Journey vii. 121 There is the peeling paper on the wall, and the wall leprous where the paper has fallen away from it.

1997 C. Barker in D. E. Winter Revelations 192 The paint was gray and leprous, falling away in scabby clumps.

2009 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 80/2 The massive Portuguese churches, with their colossal white Gothic facades, stood equally forlorn, their walls faded and leprous.

B. n.

†1. A leprous person; a leper. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > leprosy > person

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Lazarus?a1513

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c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 218 (MED) Swo kam a leprus, a sikman, and onurede him.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings iii. 29 Ne faile þere fro þe hous of Joab oon suffrynge flux..& a leprous [L. leprosus] holdynge a spyndle.

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Leprous This forsaid leprous was made hale.

?c1430 J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 205 Þei ben..lemmans of foule sathanas þat is foulere þan ony mesel or leprous in þis world.

2. Leprous people; (with the and plural agreement) people with leprosy as a class.

ΚΠ

a1456 (a1402) J. Trevisa tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (BL Add.) f. 114^v (MED) Ihesus..clensed meselles and leprous.

1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §40. m. 15 Certeyn leprus of oure menialx servauntez.

?1530 R. Bacon Bk. Beste Waters Artifycyalles sig. A.ii It uayleth moche vnto the leprous, & vnto them the whiche ben yll disposed.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 452 We fynd none oppone thame selfis to the sentence of God..aganis the leprouse.

1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries ii. 7 For the clensing of the Leprous were appointed two liuing Fowles, pure and cleane.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xx. 90 The Leprous were brought in by her Abstractors, Spodizators, Masticators, Pregustics..and other Officers, for whom I want names.

1755 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Medica Sacra ii. 17 For I have been assured by travellers, that there are two hospitals for the leprous alone in Damascus.

1887 Times 8 Nov. 13/4 These Celestials mingle freely with Europeans; indeed, so do the leprous in every quarter of the globe.

1906 Lancet 17 Mar. 769/2 In none of the other colonies did the proportion of the leprous reach 1 per 1000 of the population.

2004 J. Keay in Slightly Foxed Spring 50 The patients would be waiting, an unlovely huddle of the lame, the leprous and the fevered.

Derivatives

ˈleprously adv. in a manner suggestive of leprosy; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adverb] > leprosy

leprously1607

1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iv. sig. H2^v How leprously That Office would haue cling'd vnto your forehead.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 286 Th' ones leprously may to the World appeare; The other, truly perfect and sincere.

1830 R. Sweet Cistinae p. xvi Stem suffrutescent; branches long, erect, somewhat ligneous, leprously silvery.

1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 464/2 It shone leprously white and blue.

1918 Christian Reg. (Boston) 12 Dec. 1181 In every department of thought and life we are threatened..with monstrous moral corruption... Social reform is leprously spotted with it.

2008 H. M. Petrakis Hour of Bell 206 The man hung a breath from death, his cheeks leprously white.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	leprous
释义	leprousadj.n. Brit. /ˈlɛprəs/, U.S. /ˈlɛprəs/ Forms: Middle English leperus, Middle English lepourous (in a late copy), Middle English lepres, Middle English lepros, Middle English leprows, Middle English leprus, Middle English lepruse, Middle English leprys, Middle English luprus (probably transmission error), Middle English–1500s leprouse, Middle English–1700s leprose, Middle English– leperous (now nonstandard), Middle English– leprous, 1500s leporouse, 1500s lyporous, 1500s lyporouse, 1500s–1600s leaperous, 1500s–1600s leaporous, 1500s–1600s leaprous, 1500s–1600s leporous; also Scottish pre-1700 leaprous, pre-1700 leaprouse, pre-1700 leperous, pre-1700 leprois, pre-1700 lepros, pre-1700 leprose, pre-1700 leprous, pre-1700 leprouse, pre-1700 liperous, pre-1700 lipperous, pre-1700 lipros. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French leprus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman leprus, leperous, leperus, lepuros, lieprous, lieprus, Anglo-Norman and Old French leprous, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French lepros (Middle French lepreux , French lépreux ) (adjective) affected with leprosy, (noun) leper (11th cent.); and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin leprosus (adjective) affected with leprosy (Vetus Latina, Vulgate; late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), (in alchemy, of metals) impure (1583 or earlier), (noun) leper (Vetus Latina, Vulgate; late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < classical Latin lepra leprosy (see lepra n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Catalan llebrós (14th cent.), Spanish leproso (13th cent.), Portuguese leproso (15th cent.), Italian lebbroso (13th cent. as leproso ). Compare later leprose adj.In Simon leprous (compare quotations c1300, 1483 at sense A. 1a) after post-classical Latin Simon leprosus (Vulgate: Matthew 26:6, Mark 14:1); the King James Bible (1611) has ‘Simon the leper’. A. adj. 1. a. Of a person or part of the body: affected with leprosy (leprosy n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy > afflicted with leprous?c1225 meselc1300 leperc1400 meselinga1450 lazar1483 lazarous1536 leprosed1551 lepery1558 meselya1585 lepered1598 meseled1611 belepered1633 lazarly1634 leprosied1840 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 118 Moyses hond..bisemde on þe spitel uuel & þuchte leprus. c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 79 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 464 A man of þat contreye..heiȝhte symond leperous. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xiii. 46 Al tyme þat he is leprous [a1425 Corpus Oxf. leprows, L. leprosus] & vnclene. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 112 (MED) He cured a ȝong man leprose, in whos face knottes bigan to be made & herez deflued i. fil away. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccxvj^v/1 The hous of Symon leprous where as our lord dyned. 1526 Grete Herball ccci. sig. R.ii/2 The iuce of it [sc. blacke beryes] gadered and tempered w^t y^e syrope made of wylde sauge is good for them that ben leprose. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vi. f. 28^v With the..tortoyses of this Ilande, many leprous men are healed and clensed of theyr leprositie. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. iv. 6 And when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snowe. 1634 Younger Brother's Apol. 50 Bryand Lyle,..hauing two sonnes, both leprous, built for them a Lazaretto or Spitall. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxiv. 87 Leprous Ægyptians, driven from their Country on account of that loathsome Distemper. 1754 J. Cennick Dæmoniac 12 Scarce a blind, or lame, or leprous Person came in his way but he had Compassion on them. 1844 J. J. Weitbrecht Protestant Missions Bengal (ed. 2) iii. 122 Leprous people kill themselves by having a grave dug on the banks; a fire is kindled therein, and the poor wretch throws himself into it. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 271 The children of leprous parents are more likely to become affected [with leprosy] than are the children of healthy parents. 1941 P. White Diary 23 Jan. (1994) ii. 37 Old black beggar women, naked to the waist, with disgusting dugs and leprous feet. 1974 Times 8 Nov. 12/4 The leprous bones were identified by..a physical anthropologist (an expert with skeletons). 2009 Clinics Dermatol. 27 248/2 The Hospitaller Movement..founded hospices..to treat emissaries returning leprous from the Crusades. b. Resembling leprosy or its symptoms; associated with or symptomatic of leprosy; of or relating to leprosy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy leprous?1457 leproid1839 lepromatous1938 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > afflicted with reofeOE scabbed1338 scalled1340 crustyc1400 roynishc1400 roinousc1450 leprous?1457 scurfy1483 scabby1526 scurvya1529 shurvya1529 scald1529 scally1530 escharous1543 skalfering1561 scalded1568 morphewed1598 scaldy1598 scall?1602 pearled1627 scurfed1646 scruffy1660 reefy1684 porriginous1778 lepric1855 dandruffy1858 farreous1884 peeling1893 ?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) f. 48, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Squame For leprous squames he hadde Hys leches counsaylde in blode of Innocentes Bene bathed ofte. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. lxiiij, in Bulwarke of Defence Resolued in Uineger all the night, the same wil clense Leprous filth, and Marmols from the skinne. a1667 A. Cowley Davideis 58 in Wks. (1668) Leprous scurff o're his whole body cast. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health xix. 617 Leprous Scabby Diseases, Joint-evils, and that which they call the Kings-Evil. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 241 That the whiteness of the Negroe skin..might be called rather a leprous crust than a natural complexion. 1835 N. P. Willis Melanie 89 The dull pulses..beat beneath the hot And leprous scales. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 669 Generating leprous eruptions and similar diseases. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxvi. 421 Nerve stretching..has been strongly advocated..for the cure of leprous neuralgia. 1939 Z. N. Hurston Moses xxxvi. 301 Miriam was a horrible sight in her leprous whiteness. 1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xxxviii. 394 Leprous dyschromias are seen in the pigmentations which are common in the first stage of anæsthetic leprosy. 2005 P. J. Dyck & P. K. Thomas Peripheral Neuropathy (ed. 4) II. cvii. 2422/2 Leprous granulomas do not affect muscles. †c. Causing leprosy or a condition like leprosy; containing or carrying the contagion of leprosy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy > causing leprous1542 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. H.iii For olde beef and kowe flesshe doth ingender melancolye and leporouse humoures. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 64 And through the porches of my eares [he] Did powre the leaprous distilment. 1604 H. Clapham Demaundes & Answeres touching Pestilence 28 The Leprous garmentes were to be burnt, and the houses pulled downe. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 99 Cuckoes Flesh, whilst it is a Nestler, is..highly extolled; but when once it comes to feed it self, it is ill rellishing, hot, and leprous. 1763 London Mag. Dec. 650/1 The spot continued more dangerously infectious to the next comer, than..any leprous house was ever known among the Israelites. 1819 tr. F. Swediaur Comprehensive Treat. Venereal or Syphilitic Dis. I. 156 There are no characteristic marks which enable him to distinguish à priori syphilitic blennorrhagias, either from the herpetic or the leprous virus, or from the gout or some other acrimony. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Having a tainting influence or effect; tainted, repulsive; shunned, cast out. Originally chiefly in religious contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt > tainted or contaminated infecta1387 leprousa1425 contaminatea1555 contaminated1609 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 89 (MED) God wolde þat proude men and leprous heretikes wolden wel confesse þe feiþ, and þan shulden þei be hool. 1565 R. Shacklock tr. S. Hozjusz Hatchet of Heresies f. 2^v It is not farr vnder or ouer an hundred & fourty yeare, since the leprouse learning of the Waldenses hathe infected Boeme. ?1605 R. Dallington Method for Trauell sig. B^v Who so..bringeth home a leprous soule, and a tainted body. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 493 The leaprous humour of Popery. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiv, in Poems 7 And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould. 1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 274 Heal my leaperous Soul. 1722 E. Haywood Brit. Recluse 42 His black, his leprous Soul. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Poems Var. Subj. 54 Thyself redeeming from that leprous stain Nobility. 1835 C. Caldwell Disc. Vice Gambling 22 Best of all; our moral atmosphere will be cleansed from the leprous poison that infects it. 1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God iii. 65 Her literature..a leprous fiction which poisoned every virtue. 1898 Speaker 26 Mar. 387/1 There was evidence of an imagination that was positively leprous. 1917 G. F. Lydston Impotence & Sterility iii. 31 A large class of sexual perverts are physically abnormal rather than morally leprous. 1997 E. Hoffman Shtetl (2007) v. 216 The cold intent to make the colonized population appear repulsive, to portray them as socially leprous. 3. Alchemy. Esp. of gold or another metal: impure. Cf. leprosity n. 2. Now historical.Chiefly with reference to lead as leprous gold. ΚΠ a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1223 Leed, of philisophres, is callid gold leprous, Tyn of Iubiter. a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 802 Þalknamystre treteþe of myneralles, And of metalles..Why somme beo clene, some leprous, and not able. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 58 The phylosophers haue the same [sc. lead] in great esteeme,..they cal it their sunne or leperous gold. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 38 The Quintessence of Gold is as to its Quantity, exceeding small; and the residue of it is a leprous body. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis i. iii. 57 This Metal [sc. lead] seems to consist in part of an impure leprous earth, of a sulphureous nature. 1888 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 22 74 The alchemist seeks to heal the fault of Nature, and to get precious gold from the base lead which Aristotle calls ‘leprous gold’. 2007 L. E. Demaitre Leprosy in Premodern Med. viii. 265 They also entertained the tangential but intriguing notion that lead is leprous gold. 4. a. Botany. = leprose adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [adjective] > having bracts, etc. scaly1597 paleaceous1648 squamous1658 paleated1661 paled1704 squamose1731 leprous1759 spathaceous1760 squarrose1760 comose1793 glumose1793 ramentaceous1806 squarrous1806 leprose1818 squamate1826 glumaceous1828 bracteolate1830 lepidote1836 bracteate1839 spathose1839 squamulose1846 bracteated1852 bracted1854 obimbricate1857 squamaceous1857 squarrulose1857 ramentiferous1858 furfuraceous1860 tribracteate1870 tribracteolate1870 paleate1879 bracteose1880 1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 675 The Welch make a red dye, with urine, from another moss of this order, which Dillenius describes..by the name of The large leprous lichenoides with yellow plates. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 68 Its leprous leaves, superior fruit, and apetalous flowers, will at all times distinguish the Oleaster tribe. 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 470 Leprous..; covered with minute peltate scales. 1884 R. Bentley Student’s Guide Systematic Bot. i. iii. 131 The whole [lichen] is arranged so as to form a foliaceous.., somewhat woody, scaly, crustaceous or leprous, thallus. 1933 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 20 15 Placodium chrysodetum Vain. also has leprous thallus and positive K (violascens) reaction. 1989 Bryologist 92 106/2 Also present are sterile crusts and leprous lichens. b. Resembling or suggestive of the skin of a person with leprosy; peeling, flaking, crumbling, scabby. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > encrusting > encrusted crusted1382 incrustated1659 incrustate1671 scurfy1732 crustated1780 encrusted1815 leprous1820 barkened1827 scabrous1939 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 170 Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxi. 109 One old leprous screen of faded India leather. 1866 W. H. Bullock Across Mexico 153 Shuddering at the weariness of the deserted hacienda,..to which a coating of plaster which had half peeled off gave a most leprous appearance. 1901 D. C. Murray Despair's Last Journey vii. 121 There is the peeling paper on the wall, and the wall leprous where the paper has fallen away from it. 1997 C. Barker in D. E. Winter Revelations 192 The paint was gray and leprous, falling away in scabby clumps. 2009 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 80/2 The massive Portuguese churches, with their colossal white Gothic facades, stood equally forlorn, their walls faded and leprous. B. n. †1. A leprous person; a leper. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > leprosy > person leprousc1275 meselc1300 lazar1340 lepera1398 Lazarus?a1513 meseled1526 lepress?1541 lazar-man1552 lepered1883 c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 218 (MED) Swo kam a leprus, a sikman, and onurede him. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings iii. 29 Ne faile þere fro þe hous of Joab oon suffrynge flux..& a leprous [L. leprosus] holdynge a spyndle. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Leprous This forsaid leprous was made hale. ?c1430 J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 205 Þei ben..lemmans of foule sathanas þat is foulere þan ony mesel or leprous in þis world. 2. Leprous people; (with the and plural agreement) people with leprosy as a class. ΚΠ a1456 (a1402) J. Trevisa tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (BL Add.) f. 114^v (MED) Ihesus..clensed meselles and leprous. 1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §40. m. 15 Certeyn leprus of oure menialx servauntez. ?1530 R. Bacon Bk. Beste Waters Artifycyalles sig. A.ii It uayleth moche vnto the leprous, & vnto them the whiche ben yll disposed. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 452 We fynd none oppone thame selfis to the sentence of God..aganis the leprouse. 1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries ii. 7 For the clensing of the Leprous were appointed two liuing Fowles, pure and cleane. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xx. 90 The Leprous were brought in by her Abstractors, Spodizators, Masticators, Pregustics..and other Officers, for whom I want names. 1755 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Medica Sacra ii. 17 For I have been assured by travellers, that there are two hospitals for the leprous alone in Damascus. 1887 Times 8 Nov. 13/4 These Celestials mingle freely with Europeans; indeed, so do the leprous in every quarter of the globe. 1906 Lancet 17 Mar. 769/2 In none of the other colonies did the proportion of the leprous reach 1 per 1000 of the population. 2004 J. Keay in Slightly Foxed Spring 50 The patients would be waiting, an unlovely huddle of the lame, the leprous and the fevered. Derivatives ˈleprously adv. in a manner suggestive of leprosy; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adverb] > leprosy leprously1607 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iv. sig. H2^v How leprously That Office would haue cling'd vnto your forehead. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 286 Th' ones leprously may to the World appeare; The other, truly perfect and sincere. 1830 R. Sweet Cistinae p. xvi Stem suffrutescent; branches long, erect, somewhat ligneous, leprously silvery. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 464/2 It shone leprously white and blue. 1918 Christian Reg. (Boston) 12 Dec. 1181 In every department of thought and life we are threatened..with monstrous moral corruption... Social reform is leprously spotted with it. 2008 H. M. Petrakis Hour of Bell 206 The man hung a breath from death, his cheeks leprously white. 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