Black Death

Black Death
A pandemic outbreak (often attributed to bubonic plague) throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe.

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  • BLACK DEATH — BLACK DEATH, epidemic of various contagious diseases, bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic, all caused by the same bacillus, pasteurella pestis, a combination of which raged throughout Europe between 1348 and 1350. (See Map: Black Death). It was… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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  • Black Death — bubonic/pneumonic plague epidemic of 1347 51 in Europe, a modern name, introduced in English 1823 by Elizabeth Penrose s history of England. The contemporary name for it in most languages was something like the great dying or simply the plague… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Black death — A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Black Death — n the Black Death the illness that killed large numbers of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th century →↑bubonic plague, ↑plague1 (2) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Black Death — Black′ Death′ n. pat why an outbreak of bubonic plague that spread over Europe and Asia in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population • Etymology: 1815–25 …   From formal English to slang

  • Black Death — n. a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent …   English World dictionary

  • Black Death — ), [ [http://www.pasteur.fr/actu/presse/press/07pesteTIGR E.htm Researchers sound the alarm: the multidrug resistance of the plague bacillus could spread] ] but recently attributed by some to other diseases.The pandemic is thought to have begun… …   Wikipedia

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