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▪ I. acrasy n.
var. *acrasia n.1
▪ II. † ˈacrasy Obs.
[ad. med.L. acrasia, which seems to confuse Gr. ἀκρᾱσία ill-temperature, badly-mixed quality (f. ἄκρᾱτος unmixed, untempered, intemperate) applied by Hippocr. to meats, with ἀκρᾰσία impotence, want of self-command (f. ἀκρᾰτής powerless, without authority, without self-command, incontinent).]
Irregularity, disorder, intemperance. In Spenser's Faerie Queene, intemperance or incontinence personified as an enchantress.
1596Spenser F.Q. ii. xii, motto, Guyon..Doth overthrow the Bower of Blis, And Acrasy defeat. 1617S. D[aniel] Hist. Eng. (1617) 156 A time [reign of Henry III] that hath yeelded notes of great varietie with many examples of acrasie, and diseased State, bred both by the inequality, of this Princes manners, and the impatience of a stubborne Nobility. 1707Phillips, Acrasia, Indisposition, Disorder. [Also as in Bailey.] 1731Bailey, vol. II. Acrasy (with Physicians) the Excess or Predominancy of one Quality above another in Mixture, or in the Constitution of a Human Body. 1780Cornish Life of Firmin 84 (T.) A little prone to anger, but never excessive in it, either as to measure or time; which acrasies..occasion great uneasiness. 1818Todd, Acrasy, Excess, irregularity.
Also 7-8 acrasie, 6-9 acrasy. [f. Gr. ἀκρᾱσία bad mixture, f. ἄκρᾱτος unmixed, untempered, intemperate, applied by Hippocr. to meats.
In certain (esp. med.) sources there is app. some confusion (both etymological and semantic) with *acrasia n.2] Irregularity, disorder; morbid intemperance, excess. In Spenser's Faerie Queene, intemperance or excess personified as an enchantress.
1590Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. 362 (motto), Guyon..Doth ouerthrow the Bowre of blisse, And Acrasy defeat. Ibid. ii. xii. 381 Here wonnes Acrasia, whom we must surprise, Els she will slip away, and all our drift despise. 1617S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1617) 156 A time [reign of Henry III] that hath yeelded notes of great varietie with many examples of acrasie, and diseased State, bred both by the inequality, of this Princes manners, and the impatience of a stubborne Nobility. 1707Phillips, Acrasia, Indisposition, Disorder. [Also as in Bailey.] 1731Bailey, II. Acrasy (with Physicians) the Excess or Predominancy of one Quality above another in Mixture, or in the Constitution of a Human Body. 1743R. James Med. Dict. I. 2/2 Acrasia,..intemperance. 1780Cornish Life of Firmin 84 (T.)A little prone to anger, but never excessive in it, either as to measure or time; which acrasies..occasion great uneasiness. 1818Todd, Acrasy, Excess, irregularity. 1826J. S. Forsyth New London Med. & Surg. Dict. 10/1 Acrasia, (From α, and κεραω, to mix) unhealthiness. The same with Acratia. 1853R. G. Mayne Expos. Lex. 14/2 Acrāsia, incontinence, or intemperance in food, drink, or any other thing; excess; also applied to weakness, or inability to move; or to want of tone, and so like Acrateia. 1953Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 2) Acrasia, acrasy, morbid intemperance in anything; at one time it was synonymous with acratia, debility, impotence, inefficieny. 1981Dorland's Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 26) 24/2 Acrasia, lack of self-control; intemperance. |