Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected with leprosy.

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  • adjective Infected with leprosy.

Etymologies

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leprosy +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Within a year, his process was being used on five continents, in service of almost every field of human endeavor—to yield photogenic drawings of fossils, for phrenology portraits of captured Congo slaves, to study the geological strata of the American West, to catalog the medical pathology of the harelipped and the goitered and the leprosied, to chronicle eclipses and astronomical events, to render portraiture of politicians and kings and heads of state.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Within a year, his process was being used on five continents, in service of almost every field of human endeavor—to yield photogenic drawings of fossils, for phrenology portraits of captured Congo slaves, to study the geological strata of the American West, to catalog the medical pathology of the harelipped and the goitered and the leprosied, to chronicle eclipses and astronomical events, to render portraiture of politicians and kings and heads of state.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Within a year, his process was being used on five continents, in service of almost every field of human endeavor—to yield photogenic drawings of fossils, for phrenology portraits of captured Congo slaves, to study the geological strata of the American West, to catalog the medical pathology of the harelipped and the goitered and the leprosied, to chronicle eclipses and astronomical events, to render portraiture of politicians and kings and heads of state.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Road, a gray and withered hag, all crippled and leprosied, sits

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • And it was doing it right out in the middle of a desert, bleak, sun-leprosied, forbidding, with only the stars and the moon and the sun and a cliff-swallow or two to behold.

    The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

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