0 a disease that killed an extremely large number of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th century --
1 a serious disease that killed a great many people in Africa, Asia, and Europe in the fourteenth century; the plague --
We heard of it in a helpless sort of way, as if it had been the plague or the Black Death, and thought of its victims as doomed.
The most striking example was in the half-century after the Black Death, which carried off nearly half the population.
The fearful epidemic, known as the Black Death, which devastated Europe in that century, seems to have aggravated the haunting terror of the invisible world of demons.
One of the proctors who started with him to Rome died on the way of the Black Death.
But with the ravages of the Black Death and the decrease of population labour at once became scarce and dear.
