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lues

[ loo-eez ]

noun

Pathology.


lues

/ ˈluːiːz; luːˈɛtɪk /

noun

  1. any venereal disease
  2. a pestilence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • luetic, adjective
  • ˈپ, adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lues1

1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin ŧ plague, contagion
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lues1

C17: from New Latin, from Latin: calamity
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

It is only when they have taken to bragging that the lues Napoleonica has set in.

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Wishing to avoid the lues biographica, I assumed a somewhat too purely critical attitude while writing.

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Miscarriages in a woman should arouse the suspicion of lues in her husband.

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One week later, a “special cable” to The Times told of 503 cases of illness treated with “Preparation 606” in Berlin, including “the various forms of lues,” as syphilis was then called.

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The mercury prevents ulcers from being formed under the mucous membrane, or cures them, as in the lues venerea; and the rhubarb is necessary to keep the bowels open.

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