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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of contagium.

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Examples

  • Sit down, man, before you fall - vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis, * (* When the mind is ill at ease, the body is somewhat affected.) as Ovid would say if he could see you.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Pelo menos os miudos rebentam de energia, o que nos contagia um bocadinho mas só um bocadinho.

    Névoas de um segundo dia Artur 2005

  • Sit down, man, before you fall - vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis, * (* When the mind is ill at ease, the body is somewhat affected.) as Ovid would say if he could see you.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Sit down, man, before you fall - vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis, * (* When the mind is ill at ease, the body is somewhat affected.) as Ovid would say if he could see you.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • As is well known, viruses are contagia which give rise to a large number of the best known illnesses in man, animals and plants, e.g. smallpox, infantile paralysis, influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, mosaic disease (on tobacco plants), etc.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • The whole human race is affected with scabiem et contagia lucri, (the contagious itch for gain.)

    A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862

  • Professor Virchow, 'in the nineteenth century we have begun little by little really to find _contagia animata_.'

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • But the action of living _contagia_ extends beyond the domain of the surgeon.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • According to them, the _contagia_ of epidemic disease are formed _de novo_ in a putrescent atmosphere.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • Now the very first step towards the extirpation of these _contagia_ is the knowledge of their nature; and the knowledge brought to us by Dr. Koch will render as certain the stamping out of splenic fever as the stoppage of the plague of _pébrine_ by the researches of Pasteur.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

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