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单词 half-dead disease
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half-dead disease
a. Designating a form of paralysis that affects one side of the body (cf. hemiplegia n.). Chiefly in half-dead adle, half-dead disease. Cf. dead palsy n. Now historical or archaic.From the 19th cent. typically with reference or allusion to Old English use.In figurative context in quot. 1613.
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eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxx. 228 Þonne becymð of þam yflum wætum, oððe sio healfdeade adl oþþe fyllewærc oððe sio hwite riefþo.
OE Leechbk. Fragm. (Harl.) (1865) ii. lix. 280 Wiþ þære healfdeadan adle..: seo adl cymð on þa swiðran healfe þæs lichoman oððe on þa wynstran, þær þa sina toslupað.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. x. 508 How great errors great schollers may fall into by want of that so-much-neglected studie of Geography, without which, History that delectable study is sicke of a halfe-dead palsie.
1764 W. Dodd Comfort for Afflicted iii. 150 Burning fever, half-dead palsy, full-gorg'd apoplexy, panting asthma.
1865 T. O. Cockayne Leechdoms, Wortcunning & Starcraft II. 281 For the half dead disease... The disease cometh on the right side of the body, or on the left, where the sinews are powerless.
1908 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Apr. 1000 Hemiplegia was known as the ‘half-dead disease’, and was recognized as a disease of later life.
2011 I. Morson Falconer & Death of Kings 52 He had had a stroke and had been suffering from the half-dead disease for months.
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