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exacerbation|ɛgz-, ɛkˌsæsəˈbeɪʃən|
[ad. L. exacerbātiōn-em, n. of action f. exacerbāre to exacerbate.]
1. The action of exacerbating or provoking to anger or hatred; the condition of being exacerbated; embitterment, irritation; an instance of the same.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) Heb. iii. 15 Do not obdurate your hartes as in that exacerbation. 1605G. Powell Answ. Puritan-Papist 39 It breedeth exacerbation of minde. 1638Bp. Reynolds Peace Ch. 21 Which course usually tendeth to mutuall exacerbation. 1797Godwin Enquirer i. x. 86 Fits of peevishness and exacerbation. 1808T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 105 Political controversy, and the exacerbation of spirit into which it degenerates. 1827Capt. T. Hamilton C. Thornton (1845) 81 Those exacerbations of temper to which he was habitually liable. 1874Farrar Christ (ed. 2) II. xliii. 106, footn., The exacerbation between Jews and Samaritans was always at its worst during the anniversaries of the national feasts.
2. Increase in severity (of disease, sufferings, punishments, etc.); an instance of this. Chiefly Path., a paroxysm (of a fever, etc.); also transf.
1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. iii. 64 Coniectures of I know not what kinde of feauer, the which now and then was not without some exacerbations. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. 366 A Fit or Exacerbation at every Circuit of the blood. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 348 A great Exacerbation of this Pain the Moment after swallowing anything. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. (1818) II. 297 A vigilant magistracy, an accurate police..contribute more to the restraint..of crimes than any violent exacerbations of punishment. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 111 He absolutely trembled with..the exacerbations of his valour. 1861J. Graham Pract. Med. 608 There are few diseases more painful to witness than is tetanus, especially during the exacerbations of the spasm. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 80 Hectic fever is of a distinctly intermittent or remittent type, there being exacerbations. |