Pestilence

Pestilence

A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. The word can also be used about parasites causing large scale sickness and death, such as Guinea worm.

Originally the word referred to the bubonic plague, which is called "pestis" in Latin.

It can also refer to:

In music
*Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal band
*"Ride the Wings of Pestilence", a song by From First to Last"Pestilence", a song by The Faceless

In comics
*Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain character in "Alpha Flight"
*Pestilence (DC Comics), a DC Comics character from "52"

ee also

*List of historical plagues
*Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse


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  • pestilence — [ pɛstilɑ̃s ] n. f. • 1120 « tentation, occasion de pécher »; lat. pestilentia, de pestis « épidémie » 1 ♦ (1170) Vx Maladie épidémique caractérisée par une forte mortalité. Spécialt La peste. 2 ♦ (1256) Mod. Odeur infecte, miasme putride. ⇒… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Pestilence — Pestilence …   Википедия

  • Pestilence — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Pestilence es una banda de death metal de los Países Bajos fundada en 1986. Después incorporarían más elementos de Jazz fusión a su música. Lanzaron cuatro álbums antes de separarse en 1994 y volver a reunirse en… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Pestilence — Pes ti*lence, n. [F. pestilence, L. pestilentia. See {Pestilent}.] 1. Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. [1913 Webster] The pestilence That walketh …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pestilence — Pays d’origine  Pays Bas Genre musical Death metal Années d activité 1986 1994 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • pestilence — Pestilence. s. f. Corruption de l air, peste répanduë dans un païs. Dans le temps de la pestilence. il y eut une grande pestilence …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • pestilence — c.1300, from O.Fr. pestilence, from L. pestilentia plague, noun of action from pestilentem (nom. pestilens) infected, unwholesome, noxious, from pestis deadly disease, plague …   Etymology dictionary

  • Pestilence — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Death Metal Gründung 1985 Auflösung 1994 Neugründung 2008 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • pestilence — index nuisance Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • pestilence — [n] epidemic contagion, disease, endemic, infection, outbreak, plague, rash, scourge, sickness, virus; concepts 306,316 …   New thesaurus

  • pestilence — Pestilence, Pestilentia …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

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