Definition of Pestilences

1. Noun. (plural of pestilence) ¹

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Definition of Pestilences

1. pestilence [n] - See also: pestilence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestilences

pesticidally
pesticide
pesticide poisoning
pesticide residues
pesticide synergists
pesticides
pestiduct
pestiducts
pestier
pestiest
pestiferous
pestiferously
pestiferousness
pestilation
pestilence
pestilences (current term)
pestilent
pestilential
pestilentially
pestilentious
pestilently
pestis
pestis ambulans
pestis bubonica
pestis fulminans
pestis major
pestis minor
pestis siderans
pestivirus infections

Literary usage of Pestilences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... and that a final conquest of "Plagues and pestilences" is now at hand. In the preponderating prevalence of "preventable disasters,8 however, ..."

2. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"... of the employment of quinine, camphor, and similar medicines, as preservatives from pestilences, and more especially of quinine, camphor, and capsicum. ..."

3. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"CHAPTER I. pestilences PREVIOUS TO THE BLACK DEATH, CHIEFLY FROM FAMINES. ... Those are the two greatest pestilences in recorded history; ..."

4. Sanitary Economy: Its Principles and Practice, and Its Moral Influence on (1850)
"All will be familiar with the occasional and brief descriptions of the pestilences recorded in Scripture—especially that of the Egyptians, of the Children ..."

5. Expansion of Races by Charles Edward Woodruff (1909)
"There are many enemies to destroy them—indeed each species, HI an included, serves as food to some other. pestilences due to ..."

6. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1897)
"A VERY striking feature in recorded history has been the recurrence of great pestilences. Various indications in ancient times show their frequency, ..."

7. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1852)
"Авт. V. A History of Epidemic pestilences from tlie Earliest Ages, 149-5 years before the ... THE history of pestilences is almost the history of the world. ..."

8. A History of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom v. 2 by Andrew Dickson White (1901)
"A VERY striking feature in recorded history has been the recurrence of great pestilences. Various indications in an- cient times show their frequency, ..."

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