lues
Americannoun
noun
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any venereal disease
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a pestilence
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lues
1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion
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The rubigo is noticed as a lues venerea by Servius in Virg.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It is only when they have taken to bragging that the lues Napoleonica has set in.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 Chevalier Jackson
Lupoid laryngeal tuberculosis so much resembles lues that both the therapeutic test and biopsy may be required for certainty.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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 George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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