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There [2 5 21], it
was less adventurously used to illustrate the breaking-out of evils, weak-
nesses, or vices to the public view, on any reverse, or general blow befalling
the state or the individual ; here, it is really used in a very strong sense;
for the meaning is that           himself resembles a disease of the state,
and breaks out when once general misfortune or malady seizes the body
politic' (ib.