Meaning of LEPROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'leprus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] relating to or resembling or having leprosy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Lep"rous\ (-r[=u]s), a. [OF. leprous, lepros, F.
l['e]preux, fr. L. leprosus, fr. lepra, leprae, leprosy. See
{Leper}.]
1. Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling
leprosy. ``His hand was leprous as snow.'' --Ex. iv. 6.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Leprose. -- {Lep"rous*ly}, adv. --
{Lep"rous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, cancerous, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, laryngitic, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, palsied, paralytic, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, tabetic, tabid, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous |
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