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† ˈsqueasy, a. Obs.
Forms: 6 squeasye, 6–7 -ie (7 squeaysie), 8 squeasy; 7 squeazy, -ie.
[Alteration of queasy a.]
1. Of times: Troublous; disturbed.
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus D ij b, But now we are come to the last age, which as Ouid deuids it, is y⊇ 4, and the woorst, squeasye & dogged, & wrought of hard iron. a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 256 None of them in those squeasie and unsettled times being questioned for it.
2. Of the stomach: Readily nauseated, easily upset; = squeamish a. 1 b.
1596Lodge Wits Miserie N iiij, He driues him to be dainty of his meats, telling him his stomack is squeasie. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 21, I use to have a squeazie stomacke on salt Water. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 299 My weak and squeazie stomack will hardly digest the wing of a small rabbet or chicken.
fig.1620Mason Newfoundland 5 Peraduenture some squeasie stomake will say, Fishing is a beastly trade and unseeming a Gentleman. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. ix. (1674) 11 It proves hard of digestion to the squeasie stomacks of modern weak-wits.
Comb.1655Culpepper, etc. tr. Riverius xiv. i. 372 These Patients are commonly squeazy stomached.
b. Readily unsettled or disturbed.
1611Coryat's Crudities, Panegyr. Verses, The squeazie humour of his braine Before he parted from this maine Neare perished his skull.
3. Sparing of something.
1628Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 56 Hee is as squeazy of his commendations as his courtesie.
Hence † ˈsqueasiness, squeamishness. Obs.
a1660Hammond Sermons viii. Wks. 1684 IV. 614 A squeasiness and rising up of the heart against any mean..condition of men. 1687T. W. Lett. to Dissenter 6 After the squeaziness of starting at a Surplice, you must be forced to swallow Transubstantiation. |