great plague
11Great Plague — The plague that spread out of Rhovanion into Gondor and Eriador in Third Age 1636. The sickness of the middle years of the Third Age. Another name for the Dark Plague, the sickness that blighted Middleearth in the middle of the Third …
12Great Plague of London — noun an epidemic of bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1664–65 …
13(the) Great Plague — the Great Plague [the Great Plague] the serious and widespread attack of ↑bubonic plague (= a disease causing fever, swellings and death) in London in 1664–5, when about one fifth of the population died. The disease was spread by the ↑fleas ( …
14Plague (disease) — Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis) . Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents (most notably rats) and spread to humans via fleas. Plague is notorious throughout… …
15plague — plaguer, n. /playg/, n., v., plagued, plaguing. n. 1. an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence. 2. an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration,… …
16Great Fire of London — This article is about the Great Fire of 1666. For other great fires in London, see Early fires of London or Second Great Fire of London . The Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday,… …
17Plague pit — A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried. The term is most often used to describe pits located in Great Britain, but can be applied to any place where Bubonic plague victims… …
18plague — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ bubonic ▪ great ▪ Nearly a third of the population died in the Great Plague. … OF PLAGUE ▪ outbreak ▪ …
19Plague, Great — The "Great Plague" that swept London in 1665 was probably not really the plague but rather typhus. The plague is a highly contagious, infectious, virulent, devastating disease due to a bacteria called Yersinia pestis which mainly… …
20Plague — The Great Plague ravaged London, and other places, in 1665/6, and as with all major events generated its own set of beliefs and customs at the time, and also reverberating ever since. We are fortunate to have in Daniel Defoe s A Journal of the …
