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Leprous is the describing word for the serious disease in which the skin and nerves are slowly destroyed (, now often called Hansen's disease). A leprous person or a leprous sores means that person or those sores have that illness. The disease itself is ; leprous is not the name of the illness. You will mostly meet leprous in older books, the Bible, and history writing. Doctors today rarely use it. In very old or poetic English, writers also stretched it to mean unclean or rotten in a moral sense, and alchemists used it of impure metal, but that is not how a needs to use it. Do not use it about a living person in ordinary modern talk — it is heavy with old fear and can sound cruel.
患漢生病的；痲瘋的（舊說法，現在少用）
組成From Middle English leprous, from Anglo-Norman / Old French leprous, lepros (modern French lépreux), and from Late Latin leprōsus, from Latin lepra (leprosy) + -ōsus (full of; prone to). Latin lepra is from Greek λέπρᾱ.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
leprousadj/ˈlɛpɹəs/
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Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.
- 1748, Philip Luckombe, A Tour Through Ireland, London: T. Lowndes & Son, 1783, Journey the Fourth, p. 324, […] a dissenting minister […] came to this well, over-run with leprous eruptions on the skin, which had rendered his joints so rigid, that he could neither hold his bridle, nor feed himself […]
- Nor shall the art which you and I need be merely a purple robe woven by a slave and thrown over the whitened body of some leprous king to adorn or to conceal the sin of his luxury, but rather shall it be the noble and beautiful expression of a people’s noble and beautiful life.
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Infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
- And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
- And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
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Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
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Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
- And why, except that it had moved everywhere with them and they regarded it as one of their possessions, had they kept the hatrack, its glass now leprous, most of its hooks broken, its woodwork ugly with painting-over?
- With little room to maneuver or park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty windows, leprous upholstery, chewed gum and sticky candy wrappers on ripped seats, and jagged metal protrusions on the doors waiting to savage the clothing of entering or departing passengers.
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archaicImmoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.
- My whole Life is so leprous, it infects All my Repentance: I wou’d buy your Pardon Though at the highest Set, even with my Life:
- And ſpeckl'd Vanity / Will ſicken ſoon and die, / And leprous ſin will melt from earthly mould, […]
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historicalalchemypseudoscienceOf gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
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archaicbiologybotanynatural-sciencesSynonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).
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obsoleteCausing leprosy or a disease resembling it.
- Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona, / In a viall, and through the porches of my eares / Did powre the leaprous diſtilment, whoſe effect / Hold ſuch an enmitie with blood of man, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。