2. Verb. (third-person singular of plague) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plagues
1. plague [v] - See also: plague
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plagues
Literary usage of Plagues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"In the late priestly narratives the plagues are all of a miraculous origin and
... They are, in fact, not so much plagues as wonders, performed in the ..."
2. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1897)
"The same thing was seen in the Protestant colonies of America ; but here, while
plagues were steadily attributed to Divine wrath or Satanic malice, ..."
3. A History of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom v. 2 by Andrew Dickson White (1901)
"The great Puritan divine tells us : " plagues are some of those woes, ... 'Tis the
Destroyer, or the Divil, that scatters plagues about the World ..."
4. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch (1866)
"And whilst in the first three plagues the natural sources of the land were ...
As the plagues had thus far entirely failed to bend the unyielding heart of ..."
5. Moses and the Monuments: Light from Archaeology on Pentateuchal Times by Melvin Grove Kyle (1920)
"The narrative of the plagues. In the narrative of the plagues, ... of the natural
objects and phenomena which are the embodiment of the plagues (cf. 7. 8. ..."
6. 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, ..."
7. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"In the late priestly narratives the plagues are all of a miraculous origin and
... They are, in fact, not so much plagues as wonders, performed in the ..."
8. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1897)
"The same thing was seen in the Protestant colonies of America ; but here, while
plagues were steadily attributed to Divine wrath or Satanic malice, ..."
9. A History of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom v. 2 by Andrew Dickson White (1901)
"The great Puritan divine tells us : " plagues are some of those woes, ... 'Tis the
Destroyer, or the Divil, that scatters plagues about the World ..."
10. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch (1866)
"And whilst in the first three plagues the natural sources of the land were ...
As the plagues had thus far entirely failed to bend the unyielding heart of ..."
11. Moses and the Monuments: Light from Archaeology on Pentateuchal Times by Melvin Grove Kyle (1920)
"The narrative of the plagues. In the narrative of the plagues, ... of the natural
objects and phenomena which are the embodiment of the plagues (cf. 7. 8. ..."
12. 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, ..."
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