hystericn.adj.

Brit.

/hᵻˈstɛrɪk/, U.S.

/həˈstɛrɪk/

Forms: 1600s histerique, 1600s hysterique, 1600s–1700s histeric, 1600s–1700s histerick, 1600s–1700s hysterick, 1600s– hysteric.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin hysterica; Latin hystericus.

Etymology: As noun < post-classical Latin hysterica (neuter plural) fits of hysterics (6th cent.), remedies for hysteria (1548 or earlier), also hystericus (masculine singular) person suffering from hysteria (1576 or earlier), uses as noun of neuter and masculine respectively of classical Latin hystericus , adjective (see below); compare also ancient Greek τὰ ὑστερικά (neuter plural) fits of hysterics. As adjective < classical Latin hystericus (in post-classical Latin also histericus, istericus, ystericus (6th cent.)) suffering from discomfort in the womb, in post-classical Latin also of or belonging to the womb (6th cent.) < ancient Greek ὑστερικός of or belonging to the womb, suffering in the womb, hysterical < ὑστέρα womb (see hystero- comb. form²) + -ικός -ic suffix. On the application of the word, compare note at hysteria n. 1. Compare hysterics n., and earlier hysterical adj.With use as noun (in sense A. 2) compare the following earlier example of post-classical Latin hysterica (plural) in an English context:1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy ii. 23 Also the Physition vseth particular Euacuations in particular parts (as ye haue heard) Hee purgeth the braine through the nosthrils by medicaments called in Greeke Errhinæ... The Raines and Bladder with Diuretica. The wombe or belly with Hysterica. With use as adjective compare French hystérique of or belonging to the womb (1568 in Middle French in hystericque passion), suffering from discomfort in the womb (1582 or earlier), Portuguese histerico (1642 as hysterico).

A. n.

†1. A hysterical fit or convulsion; a state of overwhelming, uncontrollable emotion or agitation, esp. a state of acute distress. Cf. hysterics n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > unhealthy excitement > [noun] > hysterics > fit of

hysteric1652

hysterics1664

1652 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 4. 32 It puts the Women in such a pitiful panting fit of the Hysterick, that neither they nor their Husbands can take their natural rest in two houres after.

1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure II. 76 I found Harriet in a strong hysteric.

1813 M. R. Mitford Let. 3 Dec. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vii. 245 The lowly Maria fell into a sort of hysteric of fright, lamentation, and anger because she was not suffered to wear a diamond necklace.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. ix. iv. 218 He was thought to weep from hypocrisy, when in truth it was the hysteric of overwrought and irritable emotion.

1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 145 To control a fit of nerves, or a rising hysteric.

1899 Expositor Apr. 246 It [sc. repentance]..is often counted little less than a religious hysteric.

†2. A medicinal agent used to treat disorders of or attributed to the uterus, esp. the hysterical passion; = hysterical n. 1. Obsolete.Cf. antihysteric n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the womb

hysterical1651

hysterica1654

uterine1661

a1654 N. Culpeper tr. J. Prevost Medicaments for Poor (1656) 270 Certain altering Remedies take their name from the part which they help: Cephalicks, are for the Head, Ophthalmicks for the Eyes.., Nephriticks for the Reins, Histericks [L. hysterica] for the Matrix.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 92 We must first make use of aperient Hystericks [L. Hystericorum].

1722 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 33 The Corymbiferous kind, are either Stomachicks, Hystericks, or Vermifuges.

1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller iii. xxvi. 189 This composition is..excellently adapted to the Intention of an Hysteric.

3. A person affected with the hysterical passion or hysteria (as a medical disorder or, in later use, a state of extreme emotion).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria > person

hysteric1654

hysterical1803

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis > hysteria > person

hysteric1654

hysterical1803

1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica Suppl. f. 243 So they caled Lunatics, Maniacs, Lycanthrops, Epileptics, Hysterics, or the like direct Demoniacs possest with evil Spirits.

1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 128 Physicians have proved this to be the Case in common Hysterics and Epileptics.

1892 Athenæum 21 May 661/2 We have met the shepherdess of Domremy as strategist..as saint, as hysteric, and lastly..as spiritualistic medium.

1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. x. 129 The split personalities of hysterics and mediums..have a subjective meaning.

2010 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 21 Mar. We are a nation of slovenly minded hypocrites and self-righteous hysterics.

B. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of hysteria (as a medical disorder); = hysterical adj. 1a. Also: affected with this disorder (cf. hysterical adj. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > hysteria

hysterical1603

hysteric1655

hysteroid1839

hysteriform1843

hysteroidal1852

hysterogenic1879

hysterogenous1879

spasmogenic1899

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > psychoneurosis > hysteria

hysterical1603

mothersick1618

hysteric1655

tarantulary1781

hysteroid1839

hysteriform1843

hysteroidal1852

tarantular1857

hysterogenic1879

hysterogenous1879

hypnoid1898

hypnoidal1898

pithiatic1910

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. vii. 30 An Hysterick fit [L. hysterica passio], or the Mother, mixt with Convulsions, if a retaining of the Courses or Seed went before, shews that it [sc. an Epilepsy] comes from the Womb.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. E A Plague is a Poyson which..retained in Histerick women [L. in mulieribus histericis] [etc.].

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 377 Such as are Hypochondriacal and Hysterick.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvii. 268 An hysteric or paralytic patient.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1506/2 The other significant association in the present work was with the Surgency factor, which accounts for conversion hysteric symptoms among neurotics.

1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds iii. 69 Freud came to appreciate that dreams in normal persons reflected many of the various processes and mechanisms that he had been observing, if through a glass darkly, in neurotic and hysteric patients.

2. Of a medicinal agent: used to treat disorders of or attributed to the uterus, esp. the hysterical passion. Now historical and rare.Cf. antihysteric adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [adjective] > for the womb

hysterical1651

hysteric1657

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. C^v The roborative, or as vulgarly tearmed, strengthening Medicament, is that which with or by a certain propriety respects Corroborates, and conserves some part of our body, as Cephalick medicaments to the head, Otick to the ears.., Nephritick to the reins, Hysterick [L. hysterica] to the belly.

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvii. 789/2 Any proper Hysterick or Cephalick Water, or Decoction.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Waters Hysteric Waters, are those proper to strengthen the Matrix, or Womb, and remedy the Disorders that befal it.

1831 A. Macaulay Dict. Med. (ed. 2) 321/2 The pills of aloes with assafetida are so useful in this disorder, that they are popularly known by the name of hysteric pills.

1920 H. A. Kelly & W. L. Burrage Amer. Med. Biogr. 1113/2 His cure for hydrophobia and his hysteric drops, or ‘mutter tropfen’, gave him [sc. Henry William Stoy] great notoriety.

1988 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 38 197 James Buchanan Macaulay's peg-shaped nose was attributed to a childhood spent pounding into shape patent medicines like ‘hysteric pills’ for old women.

3. Characterized by excessive, unrestrained emotion or agitation; overwhelmed by extreme emotion or agitation; = hysterical adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > unhealthy excitement > [adjective]

hysteric1751

hystericky1791

shrieky1848

hysterical1862

menopausal1969

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxii. 27 The united pangs..produced a sort of hysteric laugh.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i. 4 Misses and Ma'ams piping histeric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias.

1832 C. G. F. Gore Fair of May Fair III. 35 Her voice was broken by hysteric sobs.

1889 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt in Universal Rev. 15 Feb. 251 Professor Ruskin curses all field sports..with the hysteric passion of his later days.

1971 Times 17 July 5/2 By night the streets become concrete jungles, their occupants hysteric, terrified of predators.

2018 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 May 1 She was screaming ‘tell me, tell me’ then she burst out in hysteric crying.

Compounds

hysteric passion n. Medicine (now historical and rare) a (supposed) physical disorder originally attributed to displacement or dysfunction of the uterus, characterized particularly by sensations of choking or breathlessness (cf. hysteria n. 1); = hysterical passion n. at hysterical adj. and n. Compounds. [After post-classical Latin hysterica passio (see hysterica passio n.).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria

mother?c1450

rising of the motherc1450

suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550

strangulation of the matrix or womb1601

hysterica passio1603

hysterical passion1623

hysteric passion1655

rising of the matrix1660

hystericism1710

globus hystericus1741

globe1751

hysteria1757

globus1833

pseudorabies1892

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis > hysteria

mother?c1450

suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550

strangulation of the matrix or womb1601

hysterica passio1603

suffocation (also rising, fit) of the mother1615

hysteric passion1655

tarantism1656

mother-fit1657

rising of the matrix1660

hysteria1757

tarantulism1774

pithiatism1910

mothersickness1993

1655 tr. M. Blochwitz Anatomia Sambuci 177 Not only in the suffocation of the Matrix, which by excellency is called the Histerick passion [L. passionem Hystericam]; but also it is excellent for the stopped flowres.

1762 Crit. Rev. Apr. 309 Speaking of the hysteric passion, Dr. Astruc gives the subsequent very curious theory: ‘The cause which produces the surprising motions observed in hysterical women, must be sympathetic..’.

1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) IV. 557 Swediaur, who affirms that man may labour under the hysteric passion as well as women, arranges this and hypochondrism as distinct species of a common genus.

2015 S. Arnaud On Hysteria ii. 58 François Mauriceau's Traité des maladies des femmes grosses et de celles qui sont accouchés..is the first widely circulating text to compare hysteric passion to the sea god Proteus.

Derivatives

hystericism n.

/hɪˈstɛrɪsɪz(ə)m/ rare hysteria (as a medical disorder or a state of extreme emotion). [Compare French hystéricisme (1754 or earlier).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria

mother?c1450

rising of the motherc1450

suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550

strangulation of the matrix or womb1601

hysterica passio1603

hysterical passion1623

hysteric passion1655

rising of the matrix1660

hystericism1710

globus hystericus1741

globe1751

hysteria1757

globus1833

pseudorabies1892

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 394 Why then must Hystericism and Hypochondriacism be confusedly jumbl'd together?

1867 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 12 260 A second [class] of ‘hystericism’ by imitation, in which the sufferers fall into convulsions on seeing others in them.

2002 Independent (Nexis) 6 May 12 But we do wonder what American movie-makers will make of the irony and sarcasm with which Austen mocks Gothic hystericism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hysteric
释义	hystericn.adj. Brit. /hᵻˈstɛrɪk/, U.S. /həˈstɛrɪk/ Forms: 1600s histerique, 1600s hysterique, 1600s–1700s histeric, 1600s–1700s histerick, 1600s–1700s hysterick, 1600s– hysteric. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin hysterica; Latin hystericus. Etymology: As noun < post-classical Latin hysterica (neuter plural) fits of hysterics (6th cent.), remedies for hysteria (1548 or earlier), also hystericus (masculine singular) person suffering from hysteria (1576 or earlier), uses as noun of neuter and masculine respectively of classical Latin hystericus , adjective (see below); compare also ancient Greek τὰ ὑστερικά (neuter plural) fits of hysterics. As adjective < classical Latin hystericus (in post-classical Latin also histericus, istericus, ystericus (6th cent.)) suffering from discomfort in the womb, in post-classical Latin also of or belonging to the womb (6th cent.) < ancient Greek ὑστερικός of or belonging to the womb, suffering in the womb, hysterical < ὑστέρα womb (see hystero- comb. form²) + -ικός -ic suffix. On the application of the word, compare note at hysteria n. 1. Compare hysterics n., and earlier hysterical adj.With use as noun (in sense A. 2) compare the following earlier example of post-classical Latin hysterica (plural) in an English context:1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy ii. 23 Also the Physition vseth particular Euacuations in particular parts (as ye haue heard) Hee purgeth the braine through the nosthrils by medicaments called in Greeke Errhinæ... The Raines and Bladder with Diuretica. The wombe or belly with Hysterica. With use as adjective compare French hystérique of or belonging to the womb (1568 in Middle French in hystericque passion), suffering from discomfort in the womb (1582 or earlier), Portuguese histerico (1642 as hysterico). A. n. †1. A hysterical fit or convulsion; a state of overwhelming, uncontrollable emotion or agitation, esp. a state of acute distress. Cf. hysterics n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > unhealthy excitement > [noun] > hysterics > fit of hysteric1652 hysterics1664 1652 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 4. 32 It puts the Women in such a pitiful panting fit of the Hysterick, that neither they nor their Husbands can take their natural rest in two houres after. 1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure II. 76 I found Harriet in a strong hysteric. 1813 M. R. Mitford Let. 3 Dec. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vii. 245 The lowly Maria fell into a sort of hysteric of fright, lamentation, and anger because she was not suffered to wear a diamond necklace. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. ix. iv. 218 He was thought to weep from hypocrisy, when in truth it was the hysteric of overwrought and irritable emotion. 1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 145 To control a fit of nerves, or a rising hysteric. 1899 Expositor Apr. 246 It [sc. repentance]..is often counted little less than a religious hysteric. †2. A medicinal agent used to treat disorders of or attributed to the uterus, esp. the hysterical passion; = hysterical n. 1. Obsolete.Cf. antihysteric n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the womb hysterical1651 hysterica1654 uterine1661 a1654 N. Culpeper tr. J. Prevost Medicaments for Poor (1656) 270 Certain altering Remedies take their name from the part which they help: Cephalicks, are for the Head, Ophthalmicks for the Eyes.., Nephriticks for the Reins, Histericks [L. hysterica] for the Matrix. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 92 We must first make use of aperient Hystericks [L. Hystericorum]. 1722 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 33 The Corymbiferous kind, are either Stomachicks, Hystericks, or Vermifuges. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller iii. xxvi. 189 This composition is..excellently adapted to the Intention of an Hysteric. 3. A person affected with the hysterical passion or hysteria (as a medical disorder or, in later use, a state of extreme emotion). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria > person hysteric1654 hysterical1803 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis > hysteria > person hysteric1654 hysterical1803 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica Suppl. f. 243 So they caled Lunatics, Maniacs, Lycanthrops, Epileptics, Hysterics, or the like direct Demoniacs possest with evil Spirits. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 128 Physicians have proved this to be the Case in common Hysterics and Epileptics. 1892 Athenæum 21 May 661/2 We have met the shepherdess of Domremy as strategist..as saint, as hysteric, and lastly..as spiritualistic medium. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. x. 129 The split personalities of hysterics and mediums..have a subjective meaning. 2010 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 21 Mar. We are a nation of slovenly minded hypocrites and self-righteous hysterics. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of hysteria (as a medical disorder); = hysterical adj. 1a. Also: affected with this disorder (cf. hysterical adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > hysteria hysterical1603 hysteric1655 hysteroid1839 hysteriform1843 hysteroidal1852 hysterogenic1879 hysterogenous1879 spasmogenic1899 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > psychoneurosis > hysteria hysterical1603 mothersick1618 hysteric1655 tarantulary1781 hysteroid1839 hysteriform1843 hysteroidal1852 tarantular1857 hysterogenic1879 hysterogenous1879 hypnoid1898 hypnoidal1898 pithiatic1910 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. vii. 30 An Hysterick fit [L. hysterica passio], or the Mother, mixt with Convulsions, if a retaining of the Courses or Seed went before, shews that it [sc. an Epilepsy] comes from the Womb. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. E A Plague is a Poyson which..retained in Histerick women [L. in mulieribus histericis] [etc.]. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 377 Such as are Hypochondriacal and Hysterick. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvii. 268 An hysteric or paralytic patient. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1506/2 The other significant association in the present work was with the Surgency factor, which accounts for conversion hysteric symptoms among neurotics. 1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds iii. 69 Freud came to appreciate that dreams in normal persons reflected many of the various processes and mechanisms that he had been observing, if through a glass darkly, in neurotic and hysteric patients. 2. Of a medicinal agent: used to treat disorders of or attributed to the uterus, esp. the hysterical passion. Now historical and rare.Cf. antihysteric adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [adjective] > for the womb hysterical1651 hysteric1657 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. C^v The roborative, or as vulgarly tearmed, strengthening Medicament, is that which with or by a certain propriety respects Corroborates, and conserves some part of our body, as Cephalick medicaments to the head, Otick to the ears.., Nephritick to the reins, Hysterick [L. hysterica] to the belly. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvii. 789/2 Any proper Hysterick or Cephalick Water, or Decoction. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Waters Hysteric Waters, are those proper to strengthen the Matrix, or Womb, and remedy the Disorders that befal it. 1831 A. Macaulay Dict. Med. (ed. 2) 321/2 The pills of aloes with assafetida are so useful in this disorder, that they are popularly known by the name of hysteric pills. 1920 H. A. Kelly & W. L. Burrage Amer. Med. Biogr. 1113/2 His cure for hydrophobia and his hysteric drops, or ‘mutter tropfen’, gave him [sc. Henry William Stoy] great notoriety. 1988 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 38 197 James Buchanan Macaulay's peg-shaped nose was attributed to a childhood spent pounding into shape patent medicines like ‘hysteric pills’ for old women. 3. Characterized by excessive, unrestrained emotion or agitation; overwhelmed by extreme emotion or agitation; = hysterical adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > unhealthy excitement > [adjective] hysteric1751 hystericky1791 shrieky1848 hysterical1862 menopausal1969 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxii. 27 The united pangs..produced a sort of hysteric laugh. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i. 4 Misses and Ma'ams piping histeric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias. 1832 C. G. F. Gore Fair of May Fair III. 35 Her voice was broken by hysteric sobs. 1889 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt in Universal Rev. 15 Feb. 251 Professor Ruskin curses all field sports..with the hysteric passion of his later days. 1971 Times 17 July 5/2 By night the streets become concrete jungles, their occupants hysteric, terrified of predators. 2018 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 May 1 She was screaming ‘tell me, tell me’ then she burst out in hysteric crying. Compounds hysteric passion n. Medicine (now historical and rare) a (supposed) physical disorder originally attributed to displacement or dysfunction of the uterus, characterized particularly by sensations of choking or breathlessness (cf. hysteria n. 1); = hysterical passion n. at hysterical adj. and n. Compounds. [After post-classical Latin hysterica passio (see hysterica passio n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria mother?c1450 rising of the motherc1450 suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550 strangulation of the matrix or womb1601 hysterica passio1603 hysterical passion1623 hysteric passion1655 rising of the matrix1660 hystericism1710 globus hystericus1741 globe1751 hysteria1757 globus1833 pseudorabies1892 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis > hysteria mother?c1450 suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550 strangulation of the matrix or womb1601 hysterica passio1603 suffocation (also rising, fit) of the mother1615 hysteric passion1655 tarantism1656 mother-fit1657 rising of the matrix1660 hysteria1757 tarantulism1774 pithiatism1910 mothersickness1993 1655 tr. M. Blochwitz Anatomia Sambuci 177 Not only in the suffocation of the Matrix, which by excellency is called the Histerick passion [L. passionem Hystericam]; but also it is excellent for the stopped flowres. 1762 Crit. Rev. Apr. 309 Speaking of the hysteric passion, Dr. Astruc gives the subsequent very curious theory: ‘The cause which produces the surprising motions observed in hysterical women, must be sympathetic..’. 1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) IV. 557 Swediaur, who affirms that man may labour under the hysteric passion as well as women, arranges this and hypochondrism as distinct species of a common genus. 2015 S. Arnaud On Hysteria ii. 58 François Mauriceau's Traité des maladies des femmes grosses et de celles qui sont accouchés..is the first widely circulating text to compare hysteric passion to the sea god Proteus. Derivatives hystericism n. /hɪˈstɛrɪsɪz(ə)m/ rare hysteria (as a medical disorder or a state of extreme emotion). [Compare French hystéricisme (1754 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria mother?c1450 rising of the motherc1450 suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550 strangulation of the matrix or womb1601 hysterica passio1603 hysterical passion1623 hysteric passion1655 rising of the matrix1660 hystericism1710 globus hystericus1741 globe1751 hysteria1757 globus1833 pseudorabies1892 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 394 Why then must Hystericism and Hypochondriacism be confusedly jumbl'd together? 1867 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 12 260 A second [class] of ‘hystericism’ by imitation, in which the sufferers fall into convulsions on seeing others in them. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 6 May 12 But we do wonder what American movie-makers will make of the irony and sarcasm with which Austen mocks Gothic hystericism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1652
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