leprous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.

   “1748, Philip Luckombe, A Tour Through Ireland, London: T. Lowndes & Son, 1783, Journey the Fourth, p. 324, […] a dissenting minister […] came to this well, over-run with leprous eruptions on the skin, which had rendered his joints so rigid, that he could neither hold his bridle, nor feed himself […]”

2. sıfat Infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.

   “And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.”

3. sıfat Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
4. sıfat Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.

   “And why, except that it had moved everywhere with them and they regarded it as one of their possessions, had they kept the hatrack, its glass now leprous, most of its hooks broken, its woodwork ugly with painting-over?”

5. sıfat Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.

   “My whole Life is so leprous, it infects All my Repentance: I wou’d buy your Pardon Though at the highest Set, even with my Life:”

6. sıfat Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
7. sıfat Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).
8. sıfat Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.

   “Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona, / In a viall, and through the porches of my eares / Did powre the leaprous diſtilment, whoſe effect / Hold ſuch an enmitie with blood of man, […]”