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lues

[ loo-eez ]

noun

, Pathology.


lues

/ ˈluːiːz; luːˈɛtɪk /

noun

  1. any venereal disease
  2. a pestilence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • luetic, adjective
  • luˈetically, adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lues1

1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lues1

C17: from New Latin, from Latin: calamity
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Example Sentences

It is only when they have taken to bragging that the lues Napoleonica has set in.

Wishing to avoid the lues biographica, I assumed a somewhat too purely critical attitude while writing.

Miscarriages in a woman should arouse the suspicion of lues in her husband.

One week later, a “special cable” to The Times told of 503 cases of illness treated with “Preparation 606” in Berlin, including “the various forms of lues,” as syphilis was then called.

The mercury prevents ulcers from being formed under the mucous membrane, or cures them, as in the lues venerea; and the rhubarb is necessary to keep the bowels open.

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