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To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague. Them that were left alive being infected with this disease. Sir T. North.

e for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

Single in kind; the same; a common. One plague was on you all, and on your lords. 1 Sam. vi. 4.

To plague; to vex; to tormen. Glanvill.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. The pestilence That walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6.

Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak.

lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

he power of preserving; a presevative agent. To wear tablets as preservatives against the plague. Bacon.

To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

Prevailing; prevalent; abounding. Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal. Arbuthnot. Even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife, and perfect in may listening ear. Milton.

murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

To search narrowly; to scrutinize. It is my nature's plague To spy into abuses. Shak.

ey do their work in the days of peace . . . and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague. Jer. Taylor.

sh cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

e; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.

that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

ng, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. [Obs.] Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl.