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Definition of pestilence

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Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..

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Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..

Pest :: Pest (n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague..

Tokened :: Tokened (a.) Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence..

Black Death :: Black death () A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

Path :: Path (n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action..

Plague :: Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers..

Pestilential :: Pestilential (a.) Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..

Qualm :: Qualm (n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

Decimation :: Decimation (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war..

Lustration :: Lustration (n.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified..

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes..