Word Meanings - PESTILENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Epidemical
  Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
• Virulented
  Made virulent; poisoned.
• Epidemically
  In an epidemic manner.
• Virulently
  In a virulent manner.
• Contagiously
  In a contagious manner.
• CONTAGIOUSDISEASE
  A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission o
• Contagiousness
  Quality of being contagious.
• Henceforth
  From this time forward; henceforward.
• EPIDEMICEPIDEMICAL
  Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic. 2. Spreading widely,
• Devastated
  of Devastate
• Henceforward
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• KNOWNOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The party originat
• Devastating
  of Devastate
• Infectious
  Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
• KNOWNOTHINGISM
  The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.

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