disease
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise.
Pronunciation Noundisease
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii], page 272 ↗, column 2:
- […] diſeaſes deſperate growne,
By deſperate appliance are releeued,
Or not at all.
- November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
- The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
- (metaphorically) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7:
- War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC ↗, stanza 40, page 422 ↗:
- c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i] ↗:
- To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]
- See Thesaurus:disease § Synonyms
- French: maladie, mal
- German: Krankheit, (infectious) Infektionskrankheit, Seuche (archaic)
- Italian: malattia, malanno, disturbo, morbo
- Portuguese: doença
- Russian: боле́знь
- Spanish: enfermedad, dolencia
disease (diseases, present participle diseasing; simple past and past participle diseased)
- (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC ↗, Luke viij:[49], folio lxxxix, recto ↗:
- Whyll he yett ſpeake
there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
diſeaſe not the maſter.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, page 208 ↗:
- […] mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe,
And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth;
His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.
- To infect with a disease.
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