plaguesome.html - Bad luck to both of you! - Used to show disgust at those who wont stop quarreling. * /The bus drivers went on strike because the bus company would not raise their pay. After several weeks, the people who needed to ride the bus to work said, "A plague on both your houses."/

plaguesome.html - n., v., & int.
--n.

1 a deadly contagious disease spreading rapidly over a wide area.
2 (foll. by of) an unusual infestation of a pest etc. (a plague of frogs).
3 a great trouble. b an affliction, esp. as regarded as divine punishment.
4 colloq. a nuisance.

--v.

tr. (plagues, plagued, plaguing)
1 affect with plague.
2 colloq. pester or harass continually.

--int.

joc. or archaic a curse etc. (a plague on it!).

plaguesome adj. [ME f. L plaga stroke, wound prob. f. Gk plaga, plege]

plaguesome.html - Bad luck to both of you! - Used to show disgust at those who wont stop quarreling. * /The bus drivers went on strike because the bus company would not raise their pay. After several weeks, the people who needed to ride the bus to work said, "A plague on both your houses."/

plaguesome.html - n., v., & int.
--n.

1 a deadly contagious disease spreading rapidly over a wide area.
2 (foll. by of) an unusual infestation of a pest etc. (a plague of frogs).
3 a great trouble. b an affliction, esp. as regarded as divine punishment.
4 colloq. a nuisance.

--v.

tr. (plagues, plagued, plaguing)
1 affect with plague.
2 colloq. pester or harass continually.

--int.

joc. or archaic a curse etc. (a plague on it!).

plaguesome adj. [ME f. L plaga stroke, wound prob. f. Gk plaga, plege]

plaguesome.html - Bad luck to both of you! - Used to show disgust at those who wont stop quarreling. * /The bus drivers went on strike because the bus company would not raise their pay. After several weeks, the people who needed to ride the bus to work said, "A plague on both your houses."/

plaguesome.html - adj.
Mus. (of a church mode) having sounds between the dominant and its octave (cf. AUTHENTIC).

plagal cadence (or close) a cadence in which the chord of the subdominant immediately precedes that of the tonic. [med.L plagalis f. plaga plagal mode f. L plagius f. med. Gk plagios (in anc. Gk = oblique) f. Gk plagos side]