Definition of Disease

Dis`ease´
n.1.Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
So all that night they passed in great disease.
- Spenser.
To shield thee from diseases of the world.
- Shak.
2.An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; - applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliances are relieved.
- Shak.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.
- Madison.
Disease germ
See under Germ.
v. t.1.To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
[imp. & p. p. Diseased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Diseasing.]
His double burden did him sore disease.
- Spenser.
2.To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
He was diseased in body and mind.
- Macaulay.


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