Sweating sickness Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a disease of cattle (especially calves)
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noun epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
miliary fever.
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(Med.) , a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.
