leprous
a. 麻疯病的, 患麻疯病的, 鳞状的 [医] 麻风的
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Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.
1748, Philip Luckombe, A Tour Through Ireland, London: T. Lowndes & Son, 1783, Journey the Fourth, p. 324, […] a dissenting minister […] came to this well, over-run with leprous eruptions on the skin, which had rendered his joints so rigid, that he could neither hold his bridle, nor feed himself […]
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Infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
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Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
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Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
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Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.
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Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
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Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).
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Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.
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From Middle English leprous (“having leprosy or a skin disease with symptoms like leprosy; (alchemy) of metals or minerals: impure; a leper”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman leprous, lepros [and other forms], Middle French lepros, lepreux, and Old French leprous, lepros (“having leprosy; a leper”) (modern French lépreux), and from their etymon Late Latin leprosus (“having leprosy; (alchemy) of metals: impure; a leper”), from Latin lepra (“leprosy”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Lepra is derived from Ancient Greek λέπρᾱ (léprā, “leprosy”), from λεπῐ́ς (lepĭ́s, “flake, scale; epithelial debris”) (perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel, strip off a husk or rind”) + -ῐς (-ĭs, suffix forming feminine nouns)) + -ᾱ (-ā, suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
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