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murrain::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | animal disease |
Examples of murrain
murrain
The long wars combined with a murrain of cattle in 1842 and a destructive Nile flood.
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Historian Norman Cantor suggests the Black Death might have been a combination of pandemics including a form of anthrax, a cattle murrain.
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Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass.
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- Any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague
- Murrain is a highly infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It literally means "death" and was used in medieval times to represent just that. The population of that era had no way of identifying specific diseases in their livestock so they simply put all illnesses under one heading. ...
- Plague, infectious disease, pestilence; Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle such as anthrax
- [Ex 9: 3] An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
- A malignant fever affecting domestic animals; any plague or pestilence
- Heb. deber , "destruction," a "great mortality", the fifth plague that fell upon the Egyptians (Exo 9:3). It was some distemper that resulted in the sudden and widespread death of the cattle. It was confined to the cattle of the Egyptians that were in the field (Exo 9:6).
