leprosie

English

Noun

leprosie (usually uncountable, plural leprosies)

1. Obsolete spelling of leprosy.
   • 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure‎^[1]:

     Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe

   • a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, →OCLC, page 104:

     As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd.

   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre‎^[2], Cambridge, Book 5, Chapter 15, p. 254:

     Amongst other diseases the Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither.