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▪ I. colic, n. and a.|ˈkɒlɪk|
Forms: α. 5–6 colike, colyke, 6 collyke, collic, 6–7 collick(e, colicke, colique, 6–8 colick, (7 collect), 8– colic. β. (erron.) 7 chollick(e, cholicke, 7–9 cholick, 8–9 cholic.
[a. F. colique, ad. L. colic-us, a. Gr. κολικ-ός of or pertaining to the κόλον (or κῶλον), lower part of the intestinal canal. (The correct spelling was with ο, but app. all the MSS. have ω.) Although orig. an adj., the term appears to be first found in modern langs. as a n. repr. med.L. colica (passio) ‘colic passion’.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xlii. (1495) 158 The sykenes that hyght Collica passio comyth of grete streightnesse of that gutte that highte Colon.]
A. n.
1. A name given to severe paroxysmal griping pains in the belly, due to various affections of the bowels or other parts; also to the affections of which such pains are the characteristic symptom.
c1440Promp. Parv. 87 Colyke, sekeness, collica passio. 1483Cath. Angl. 71 Colike, colica passio. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 8 The coughe and the colyke. 1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. C iij b, The colike..ingendreth in a gutte named colon. 1611Coryat Crudities 405 The tertian and quartan ague, the itch, the cholicke. 1714J. Purcell Cholick Index, How to distinguish any of these Cholicks from the Nephretick Cholick. 1740R. Dundas in Athenæum 24 Sept. 1887 The whey..gives me pretty smart colicks. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 537 The term colic, in its etymology, relates to the colon, but it is often applied to paroxysmal, spasmodic pain in other parts. 1870Pall Mall G. 27 Oct. 4 That curse of his trade the painter's colic, a form of lead poisoning due to the poisonous materials with which common paints are..compounded.
2. Comb. colic-root, a name given to three North American medicinal plants, Aletris farinosa, Dioscorea villosa, and Liatris squarrosa; colic-water, some remedy for colic.
1771Mackenzie Man Feel. (1886) 23 The composition and virtues of her favourite cholic-water. 1866Treas. Bot. 35 Aletris farinosa, called Colic root and Star grass..It is one of the most intense bitters known.
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the colon, as in colic arteries, † colic gut = colon.
1615Crooke Body of Man 99 A part of the collick gut. a1646J. Gregory Learned Tracts 103 An Ulcer of the Entrails..especially of the Cholick Gut. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 196/1 The colic arteries..form arches.
2. Affecting the colon; of, or of the nature of, colic; in colic passion = colic A. 1, colic pains, etc.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 225 Sciaticke goutes, collicke passions. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xv. §2 (1622) 156 His intestines..grieuously tormented him with colique passions. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 484 Intestin Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs. 1754–64Smellie Midwif. I. 149 The air..expands and stretches the colon, producing severe cholic pains. 1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 186 Stricture of the intestines..gives rise to colic pains.
▪ II. † colic, v.
[f. colic n.: cf. to physic.]
trans. To affect with colic. Hence ˈcolicked, ˈcolicking ppl. adjs.
1733Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iii. (1734) 292 To take off the..Colicking Quality of Honey. 1740― Regimen 110 Having the bowels inflated, colicked or griped. |