单词 | lethargy |
释义 | lethargyn. 1. Pathology. A disorder characterized by morbid drowsiness or prolonged and unnatural sleep.See also Negro lethargy n. at Negro n. and adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleep lethargyc1374 sleeping sickness1551 sleeping evil1580 sleeping diseasea1586 lethargicness1633 sopor1675 narcotism1843 hypersomnia1876 narcolepsy1880 narcolepsia1888 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 674 (730) What slomberyst þou as in lytargye. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. iii. (Tollem. MS.) Floures þerof [of almonds] sode in oyle awakeþ hem þat haueþ þe litargy, the slepynge euel. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 310 And þis cauterie is good for sijknes þat ben in þe partie bihinde of a mannes brayn as for þe litarge. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. iii. sig. A.vii Regarding nothing, thinking almoste of nothyng, no more than if they laye in a letarge. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 356 in Shorter Poems (1967) 30 My dasyt hed fordullyt dissyly, I rasyt vp, half in a letergy [1579 Edinb. litargie]. 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 26 At last a lethargy made an end of him. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 227 Stroake it on the temples for the Lytargie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 51 The Lethergie, must haue his quiet course, If not he foames at mouth. View more context for this quotation 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 367 A Lethargy is a lighter sort of Apoplexy. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 445/1 By lethargy is meant a torpor both mental and corporeal, with deep quiet sleep... This is the slightest form of coma. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxvi. 322 He soon fell into a lethargy. 2. A condition of torpor, inertness, or apathy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] accidiaOE accidie?c1225 lethargyc1380 faintness1398 lithernessc1425 listlesshedec1440 owlisthead1440 supinity1548 lustlessness1556 benumbedness1566 phlegm1578 apoplexy1589 acedia1607 torpor1607 drowsiness1611 torpidity1614 languishmentc1620 hebetude1621 acedy1623 inerty1623 supineness1640 listlessness1646 cadaveriety1651 inertitude1656 oscitation1656 torpulency1657 sopor1658 phlegmaticness1659 lethargicalness1664 torpidnessa1676 faineantisea1684 phlegmatism1688 vis inertiae1710 torpitude1713 moonery1764 donothingness1814 benumbment1817 inertia1821 languor1825 donothingism1839 Mondayishness1850 mooniness1852 mooning1857 fainéantisme1873 sog1874 Oblomovism1902 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 372 Well myȝte we seuer þat slepe of litergi þat is fallen upon vs. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 87 We (surprised with a lethargy of sinne) do nothing but laugh and iest in the midst of our sleepie security. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xcii. 372 Had not hate in scottish hearts bread Lethargie of feare. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 120 Cosin, Cosin, how haue you come so earely by this Lethargie ? View more context for this quotation 1642 King Charles I in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. vi. 77 It was a strange fatal Lethargy which had seised Our good People, and kept them from discerning that [etc.]. 1672 J. Dryden Def. Epilogue in Conquest Granada 174 Falling..into a carelessness and (as I may call it) a Lethargy of thought. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 13 No Tear had pow'r to flow; Fix'd in a stupid Lethargy of Woe. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxix. 148 Men, roused from that lethargy in which they had so long slept. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 13 That gentleman had gradually passed through the various stages which precede the lethargy produced by dinner. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 58 Oft I fall, Maybe for months, in such blind lethargies, That Heaven, and Earth, and Time are choked. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxi. 356 Desperate at the lethargy of their commander, the aristocracy tried to force him into movement. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who phlegmatic?1541 drumble1568 log1579 phlegmatist1599 lethargy1634 mooner1842 slowie1901 Oblomov1903 walking dead1980 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleep > person lethargicc1470 letharge1615 lethargy1634 narcoleptic1928 narcolept1957 1634 J. Shirley Example i. i Dormant, why Dormant, thou eternall sleeper! Who would be troubled with these lethargies about him? Dormant, are you come Dreamer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lethargyv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To affect with lethargy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > pass (time) listlessly or lethargically [verb (transitive)] > make listless or lethargic stupefy?a1425 lethargy1608 doze1617 lethargize1633 dozzlea1670 somniate1719 stagnate1725 torpedoa1772 torpefy1808 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 223 His discernings are lethergie . View more context for this quotation 1769 G. Colman in C. Lennox Sister Prol. If lethargied by dullness here you sit. 1893 F. Thompson Poems 75 It grew lethargied with fierce bliss. 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