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sweating-sickness
[Cf. early Du. sweetende sieckte (Kilian), after Eng.; also mod.Du. zweetziekte, G. schweisssucht, Sw. svettsjuka.]
A febrile disease characterized by profuse sweating, of which highly and rapidly fatal epidemics occurred in England in the 15th and 16th centuries. Now chiefly Hist. in reference to these.
1502Arnolde Chron. A vij, This yere [sc. 1485] was a grete deth and hasty callyd th swetynge syknes. 1542Boorde Dyetary xxvii. (1870) 289 Whan the Plages of the Pestylence or the swetynge syckenes is in a towne,..the people doth fle. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 83 This yeare [sc. 1529] also was Germany sore afflicted with a newe kynde of disease called the Sweathing sicknes. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 122 The first time of this sweating sickness was in the year 1485. 1758Jortin Erasm. I. 36 The sweating sickness..began at first in 1483, in Henry the Seventh's army, upon his landing at Milford haven. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 423 The sweating sickness was a rapid fever, carrying people off in 24 hours.
fig. or allusively.1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. 1904 II. 228 Let mee..tell a little of the sweating sicknes, that made me in a cold sweate take my heeles and runne out of England. 1639Massinger Unnat. Combat iv. ii, [We will] ease you Of your golden burthen: the heavy carriage may Bring you to a sweating sickness. |