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DISEASE, n. Dizeze. dis and ease.
1. In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used by Spenser but in this sense, obsolete.
2. The cause of pain or uneasiness distemper malady sickness disorder any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound. The first effect of disease is uneasiness or pain, and the ultimate effect is death. A disease may affect the whole body, or a particular limb or part of the body. We say a diseased limb a disease in the head or stomach and such partial affection of the body is called a local or topical disease. The word is also applied to the disorders of other animals, as well as to those of man and to any derangement of the vegetative functions of plants.
The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such a variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human life is darkened by their number, and the escape of an individual becomes almost miraculous.
3. A disordered state of the mind or intellect, by which the reason is impaired.
4. In society, vice corrupt state of morals. Vices are called moral diseases.
A wise man converses with the wicked, as a physician with the sick, not to catch the disease, but to cure it.
5. Political or disorder, or vices in a state any practice which tends to disturb the peace of society, or impede or prevent the regular administration of government.
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.
DISEASE, dizeze.
1. To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of the several organs of a living body to afflict with pain or sickness to make morbid used chiefly in the passive participle, as a diseased body, a diseased stomach but diseased may here be considered as an adjective.
2. To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect to disorder to derange.
3. To infect to communicate disease to, by contagion.
4. To pain to make uneasy.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Disease'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/disease.html.
Entry for 'Disease'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/disease.html.
