lues

American  

[loo-eez] / ˈlu iz /

noun

Pathology.

1. syphilis.

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lues British  

/ ˈluːiːz, luːˈɛtɪk /

noun

1. any venereal disease

2. a pestilence

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Other Word Forms

• luetic adjective
• luetically adverb

Etymology

Origin of lues

1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From New York Times

If no improvement is noticed lues is excluded.

From Project Gutenberg

Macaulay has given to the usual complaint which distorts the vision of most biographers the name of lues Boswelliana.

From Project Gutenberg