Obs. [ad. L. clādes destruction, disaster: cf. It. clade in same sense.] A disaster, calamity, plague.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, St. Justina, 413. Or ellis suld þat fellone clade Confonde þe cyte but abade.
1528. Dr. Taylor, To Wolsey (MS. Cott. Cal. D. x. 364). After the grete clade of sycknes and deth of Frenchmenn.
1604. Babington, Comfort. Notes Exod., x. Wks. (1637), 215. All the ruinous calamities and miserable clades.
