plagueyadj.adv.

1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation f. 116 ^v Nothing..can be imagined more plagie and more deadly, than the doctrine of the Schoole diuines concerning..vncertentie of saluation.

a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) ii. iii. sig. E2 'Tis a most pestilent contagious feaver, A Surfet, a plaguey surfet: he must bleed.

1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 62 Corrupts me, makes me full of plaguy soares, which Putrefaction on mens Bodies poures.

1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) x. ii. 132–3 And whereas other sorts of Gangren's begin outwardly, and pierce inwardly; the Plaguy Gangrene begins inwardly, and pierces outwardly.

1765 M. Mackenzie in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 75 He had many plaguy symptoms, as buboes, carbuncles, &c.

1888 W. Besant Eulogy R. Jeffries 2 Thou shalt be afflicted with grievous plaguy diseases.

a1963 S. Plath in N.Y. Times (1981) 2 Aug. vii. 7/1 Gone In the deep convulsion gripping your face, muscles And sinews bunched, victorious, as the cosmic Laugh does away with the unstitching, plaguey wounds Of an eternal sufferer.

1997 Shakespeare Q. 48 232 It is a story of..a son..tempted to revenge his mother's death at the hands of her sister-queen, advised to await the latter's dying voice to insure succession to her throne, yet kept from enjoying that throne by plaguey death.

1595 Countess of Pembroke tr. R. Garnier Trag. Antonie ii. B3 So plaguie he [sc. Love], so many tempests raiseth, So murdring he, so many Citties raiseth.

a1603 Queen Elizabeth tr. Plutarch De Curiositate i, in Englishings (1899) 122 If plagy wilz ther be that noyful ar.

c1620 Psalm xci in Summe Sacred Diuinitie ii. ix. 514 He shall deliuer thee..from the plaguie pestilence.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 163 What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still.

1690 Bloody Duke ii. i. 14 Thou hast struck a plaguy Damp upon me; His Words seem to be prophetick, and presage ill to me.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. iv. 23 They make charming mistresses, but plaguy Wives.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 Jan. (1941) 8 I felt no increase of my plaguy malady [sc. rheumatism].

1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xiii. 483 Nine days of bad or plaguy winds (olooi anemoi) bring him to the land of the Lotos-Eaters.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4^v Let vs see what doings the Sexton of Stepney hath: whose ware-houses being all full of dead commodities, sauing one: that one he left open a whole night..knowing y^e theeues this yeare were too honest to break into such cellers. Besides those that were left there, had such plaguy pates, that none durst meddle with them for their liues.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. ii. §7. 139 Many physitians will scarce aduenture to deale with plaguie patients.

1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. vii. §4 To make no question whether he should meete his friend in a plaguie house.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 389 New Diseases..which have broke out..into this Plaguy Age.

1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. ii. ii. 66 The reception of the Infection, either immediately by accompanying some plaguey person, or mediately transmitted by a Fomes from some other place.

1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 Nat. Hist. 101/1 I never was afraid to go into any large house, wherein a plaguy person lived, provided that he was confined to one room.

1987 G. McCaughrean Little Lower than Angels ix. 106 Not that I'm plaguey... Dizzy with standing, that's all.