| 单词 | falling sickness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalling sickness falling sickness n. [compare Old English fiellesēocnes (compare Old English fiell : see fall n.2)] now chiefly historical ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy brothfallc1175 foul evila1398 the falling evila1400 falling gouta1400 land-evilc1440 falling sickness1485 epilency1495 falling-ill1561 comitial fit1562 St John's disease1574 epilepsy1578 falling disease1580 St John's evil1605 epilepse1804 sacred malady- 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bvijv/1 There atte laste were guarysshed & heled..of the fallyng sekenes lxv. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Cv An ounce is good for them that haue the fallynge sekenesse. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. I4 She can easily turne a sempstresse, into a waiting gentlewoman, but her Ward-robe is most infectious, for it brings them to the Falling-sickenes. a1632 T. Taylor Princ. Christian Pract. (1635) 570 But the most dangerous falling sicknesse, is, to fall into sinne. 1843 T. Watson Lect. Physic I. xxxv. 611 Its [sc. epilepsy] common designation is the falling sickness: or, more vaguely, fits. 1991 Folklore 102 193 The extraordinary ‘Evangiles de Quenouilles’..prohibits the young girl from eating sheeps' heads, cocks' crests or eels, on pain of falling victim to St. Loup's disease or epilepsy, but also that ‘falling sickness’ which causes young girls to fall on their backs in another sense. 2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xii. 189 We all have the falling sickness in here, Leda. Grand mal, the Fall of Man. < as lemmas |
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