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 Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Is not the lack thereof a felonious deformity, yea, the grimmest feature of the lues confirmata of statute heresy?

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

It must be remembered that a person with lues may have a simple, mixed, or malignant ulceration of the esophagus, or the three lesions may even be combined.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

Delicta, majorum, immeritus lues, if memory had not failed me, I might have quoted that line often and appropriately enough.

From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)