1894 Brewer’s / D / Disease
meaning discomfort, want of ease, mal aise, as
“In the world ye shall have disease.”—Wyclif: John xvi. 33.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.