Meaning of leprosie | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of leprosy.

alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe”

“As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd.”

“Amongst other diseases the Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither.”

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