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nausea|ˈnɔːʃɪə, ˈnɔːsɪə, ˈnɔːzɪə|
[a. L. nausea, nausia, a. Gr. ναυσία, ναυτία, f. ναῦς ship.]
1. a. A feeling of sickness, with loathing of food and inclination to vomit.
1569R. Androse tr. Alexis' Secr. iv. i. 14 The disease called Nausea. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick (1596) 374 A certaine..disposition to vomit, called of the Latines Nausea. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Nausea, Loathing. 1719Quincy Phys. Dict. (1722) 41 The most grievous Nausea's and Vomitings. 1763Mackenzie in Phil. Trans. LIV. 74 This cold fit is soon accompanied with a loathing nausea and desire of vomiting. 1842Combe Digestion 32 Abstinence was again enforced and tartar emetic given to excite nausea. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 752 Nausea and sickness, again, are frequent symptoms of dyspepsia.
b. Sea-sickness. (The original sense.)
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 Aug., Most of the passengers were seized with a nausea. 1795Montford Castle II. 101 The dispiriting nausea which attends a first voyage. 1861All Year Round 13 July 372 Many of the kidnapped men were in agonies of nausea.
2. transf. A strong feeling of disgust, loathing, or aversion.
1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. To Rdr., The Nausea of some at home, whom no sermon pleaseth longer then it is in hearing. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 58 That nausea which the tedious repetition of things present and familiar creates in the Soul of man. 1782Cowper Flatting Mill 24 For truth is unwelcome..And unless you adorn it, a nausea follows. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 161 Sated to nausea as we have been with the doctrines of Sentimentality. 1866Crump Banking ix. 208 The winds of heaven unable to blow over them without nausea and loathing.
3. That which causes sickness or loathing.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes 82 Stifled with the fumes and Nauseæ of his filthy Caldron. 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 520/2 To escape at once a painful monotony and a nausea of gewgaws.
4. Special Comb.: nausea gas, a gas used to induce nausea in people.
1966Guardian 10 May 12/4 US Army planes dropped nearly three and a quarter tons of nausea gas on the suspected jungle headquarters of the Vietcong yesterday. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 17/1 Soldiers fired nausea gas to drive back a stone-throwing mob..in Belfast. |