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  • noun Irregular plural form of miasma.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek μιάσματα, plural of μίασμα.

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Examples

  • _Here_ you may freeze out all your "miasmata" and surplus bile in ten days, and go to Columbia with nerves well strung and blood well purified.

    Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2. 1811

  • _Here_ you may freeze out all your "miasmata" and surplus bile in ten days, and go to Columbia with nerves well strung and blood well purified.

    Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete 1811

  • After all those who fought and paid with their lives ... they didn't see us as patriots who fought against the conquering armies, but as evil spirits (miasmata), evil communist spirits as they called us.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Doctors walked the streets covered with oiled silk, wearing high wooden shoes as the miasmata, “the pestilence which walketh by noonday,” seeped around them.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Doctors walked the streets covered with oiled silk, wearing high wooden shoes as the miasmata, “the pestilence which walketh by noonday,” seeped around them.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Doctors walked the streets covered with oiled silk, wearing high wooden shoes as the miasmata, “the pestilence which walketh by noonday,” seeped around them.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Some believed that the disease was carried by miasmata (“bad airs”), while others blamed Jews for the illness (a form of anti-Semitism).

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • Some believed that the disease was carried by miasmata (“bad airs”), while others blamed Jews for the illness (a form of anti-Semitism).

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • With their nights 'growths of beard, matted hair, bloodshot eyes, miasmata of foul breath, DeCoverley and Joaquin are wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • The miasmata might be caused by the action of the sun, which replaced the sun god Apollo, who, according to the myth, had inflicted a plague upon Thebes which was polluted by the deeds of

    HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

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  • "'It is because of the miasmata.'

    'Are they like miasmas?'

    'Much the same, I do assure you...'"

    --P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 207–208

    March 18, 2008