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crise|kriːz|
Also 6 cryse.
[a. F. crise crisis (Paré 16th c.).]
= crisis. Also in various French phrases, esp. crise de (or des) nerfs, an attack of nerves, a fit of hysterics.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 D iij, They haue wel and parfytly knowen the contemplacyon of the Cryse. 1643R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 90 This seems to be a new period and crise of the most great affaire. c1750Shenstone Progr. of Taste iv, Behold him, at some crise, prescribe, And raise with drugs the sick'ning tribe! 1768Ross Helenore 52 (Jam.) [She] thinks her wiss is now come to the creeze. 1921W. J. Locke Mountebank xxi. 272 Reason enough for a crise de nerfs. Even I, who had nothing to do with it, found my equilibrium disturbed. 1922M. Arlen Piracy ii. i. 72 ‘Virginia has got a crise,’ Lois Lamprey commented. 1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. vii. 96 Sometimes these crises de nerfs are dangerous. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xx. 148 The cook usually had a crise de nerfs and a flood of tears. 1946E. Taylor Palladian v. 49 When the time came for her to go to the party..there would be a painful crise de nerfs. 1962Gregor & Nicholas Moral & Story v. 133 The crise de conscience that faces the serious contemporary novelist. 1962N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 44 I'm afraid your Pixie has created a parochial crise. 1962Punch 23 May 808/1 When there is a crise d'amour it is very peaceful for me. 1963A. Hartley State of England iii. 79 The Algerian crise de conscience that dissolved the authority of the French state. 1970P. Bair Tribunal iii. v. 201 What then caused this crise de conscience? 1970New Yorker 10 Oct. 178/2 She has been a splendid advertisement for the benefits of a happy marriage—conspicuously more relaxed, far less subject to those old crises des nerfs. |