单词 | epileptic |
释义 | epilepticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to epilepsy; of the nature of epilepsy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > fit or stroke > epilepsy epilentical1483 epileptic1608 epileptical1621 epilepsian1627 epileptiform1861 epileptoid1876 epileptogenous1885 pre-paroxysmal1887 epileptogenic1889 uncinate1899 psychomotor1902 pre-epileptic1903 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > fit or stroke > epilepsy > suffering from epilentica1398 caduke1495 epileptic1608 caduce1657 caducous1684 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. E4v But I'le forestall thine Epileptique fits; And by my plots breed thy destruction. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 190 ⁋592 The epileptick fumes shall come that way out of the brain. 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 325 It appears..that reverie is a disease of the Epileptic or Cataleptic kind. 1840 R. H. Barham Life Henry Harris in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 189 A formidable epileptic attack. 1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 103 Epileptic coma can hardly be mistaken for that of cerebral hemorrhage. 1889 F. Clark Papers on Surg. He had two epileptic fits. 2. Affected with epilepsy. ΚΠ 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 79 A plague vpon your epeliptick Visage. View more context for this quotation 1655 Bp. J. Taylor Vnum Necessarium vi. §7 An epileptick son doth often come from an epileptick father. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 81 Till through his epileptic mouth Those following speeches fierce and loud Burst out. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 335 In Russia, Denmark, and Sweden, millions of children become epileptic from the breast. 1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 44 In the olden times..to be epileptic or insane was, to be possessed of an evil spirit. B. n. 1. An epileptic person. Cf. A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy > person epilentica1398 epileptic1651 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 211 Epileptiques..they esteemed..Dæmoniaques. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 373 Epilepticks ought to breathe a pure Air. 1864 Reader No. 94. 485/1 Epileptics and idiots. 2. In plural. Medicines given to cure or mitigate epilepsy. ΚΠ 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1608 |
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