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See also:dis-ease

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdisese, fromAnglo-Normandesese, disaise, fromOld Frenchdesaise, fromdes- +aise. Displaced nativeMiddle Englishadle, audle(“disease”) (fromOld Englishādl(“disease, sickness”), seeadle),Middle Englishcothe, coathe(“disease”) (fromOld Englishcoþu(“disease”), seecoath). Bysurface analysis,dis- +‎ease.

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Noun

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disease (countable anduncountable,pluraldiseases)

  1. (medicine) Anabnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causesdiscomfort ordysfunction; distinct frominjury insofar as the latter is usuallyinstantaneously acquired.
    The tomato plants had some kind ofdisease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
    • c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii],page272, column 2:
      […]diſeaſes deſperate growne,
      By deſperate appliance are releeued,
      Or not at all.
    • November 22, 1787,James Madison Jr.,Federalist No. 10
      The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortaldiseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.[…] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or yourdiseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
    • 1922,Ben Travers, chapter 1, inA Cuckoo in the Nest,→OL:
      […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignantdiseases.
    • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, inAmerican Scientist, volume100, number 2, page87:
      Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and otherdiseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
  2. (figuratively) Anyabnormal orharmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
    • 1955,The Urantia Book,Paper 134:6.7:
      War is not man's great and terribledisease; war is a symptom, a result. The realdisease is the virus of national sovereignty.
  3. Lack ofease;uneasiness;trouble;vexation;disquiet.

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Terms derived fromdisease: eponyms
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Translations

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an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction

Verb

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disease (third-person singular simple presentdiseases,present participlediseasing,simple past and past participlediseased)

  1. (obsolete) To causeunease; toannoy,irritate.
  2. Toinfect with a disease.

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