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▪ I. ‖ grippe|grip|
Also (anglicized) grip.
[Fr., vbl. n. f. gripper to seize.]
= influenza.
1776J. Jekyll Corr. (1894) 64 An epidemic cold seems to have spread itself from London to Barcelona. In passing through this kingdom [France], it has obtained the name of ‘grippe’—a term significant enough from the nature of its attack on the throat. 1803T. Campbell Let. 27 Mar. in Life & Lett. (1849) I. 425 John has been dubbed Dr. Leyden, and the influenza has been called La grippe. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 193 The epidemic of 1803–4 (known by the name of grippe). 1890Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 441 Four of the weans have had the grippe. 1891Boston Daily Globe 24 Mar. 5/1 The grip is with us again... This year the grip seems to have started in Chicago.
Hence ‖ grippé a., gripped a., affected with the ‘grippe’.
1890W. Bateson Let. 16 Jan. in B. Bateson W. Bateson (1928) 40, I am glad to hear that you were so slightly ‘grippé’ after all. 1892Contemp. Rev. Aug. 233 The one whose bed was opposite to the gripped patient. Ibid. 235 A visitor arrived there gripped on Dec. 12, 1889. 1933J. Joyce Let. 18 Oct. (1966) III. 288, I..have to put it off, being slightly grippé.
▪ II. grippe
obs. form of grip. |