fever lurdenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fever lurden (uncountable)

1. (dated or obsolete) Lurgy. (laziness regarded as a notional disease)
   • 1635, Daniel Dike, “A Commentary vpon the Epistle to Philemon”, in The Workes of that Late Reverend Divine Maſter Daniel Dike, Batchelor in Diuinity, London:  […] Iohn Beale, Verse 6, page 134:

     Faith of its owne nature is very laborious , and whiles it is ſtrong and healthy, tyes her ſelfe duely to her Taske , and is alwayes at worke : Yet ſometimes , the Fever Lurden having caught her , ſhee begins to bee lazie, and to have no lift to worke. Nay , then it is Holy-day , and Vacation-time with her, til ſhee recover her ſelfe againe.