but upon concrete and certain data in a science of observation it is no longer possible to give the name of law to a theory like that of Malthus, which is a completedisagreementwith facts. As our century has been free from the wars, pestilences and famines which have afflicted other ages...
a disease that killed over thirty percent of Europe's population, was certainly a pestilence. Pestilence is also one of the four Horseman of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation (which is part of The Bible).
...inCreation's swing The Race and not the man's the thing. There's battle, murder, sudden death, And pestilence, with poisoned breath. Yet quick forgotten are such woes; On, on the stream of Being flows. Truth, Beauty, Love uphold their sway — What ho! the World's... ...
2. (Pathology) an infectious disease of rodents, esp rats, transmitted to man by the bite of the rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) 3. (Pathology) See bubonic plague 4. something that afflicts or harasses 5. informal an annoyance or nuisance 6. (Bible) a pestilence, affliction, or calamity...
"A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother"Bible: Proverbs Proverbs "Like father like son" Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002 ...
two angels are commissioned to destroy Sodom (Genesis 19:13); when David numbers the people, an angel destroys them by pestilence (2 Samuel 24:16); it is by an angel that the Assyrian army is destroyed (2 Kings 19:35); and Ezekiel hears six angels receiving the command to destroy thos...
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico2008 Hence the spilling of semen for any nonprocreative purpose -- incoitusinterruptus (Gen. 38: 1-11), male homosexual acts, or male masturbation -- was considered tantamount to abortion or murder. ...
While these reformers attacked people in high places, they also regarded the Catholicism of ordinary people as needing reform. Such practices as pilgrims visiting shrines or parishioners regarding therelicsofsaintswith awe were open to abuse. The pestilences and plagues of the 14th century had bred...
nounAny great misfortune or cause of misery; in general, any event or disaster which produces extensive evils, as loss of crops, earthquakes, etc., but also applied to any misfortune which brings great distress upon a single person; misfortune; distress; adversity. ...
Jealousy … descended on his spirit like a choking and pestilence-laden cloud —Thomas Wolfe Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual jars —William Penn Jealousy is cruel as the grave —The Holy Bible/Song of Solomon ...