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单词 lethargy
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lethargyn.

Brit. /ˈlɛθədʒi/, U.S. /ˈlɛθərdʒi/
Forms: Middle English litergi, litargi, litargy, lytargye, Middle English–1500s litargie, li-, lytarge, (1600s lytargie), Middle English–1500s letargie, letargye, 1500s letarge, letharge, 1500s–1600s lethargie, (1500s lithargie, lethergie), 1500s– lethargy.
Etymology: < Latin lēthargia (medieval Latin litargīa, after medieval Greek pronunciation), < Greek ληθαργία, < λήθαργος forgetful, a derivative or compound of ληθ-, λανθάνειν to escape notice, λανθάνεσθαι to forget. Compare French léthargie (Old French litargie), Provençal litargia, Spanish letargia, Portuguese lethargia, Italian letargia. The Middle English forms in -arge may represent Latin lēthargus, Greek λήθαργος; the adjective was used substantively as a name for the disease.
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.
in extended use.1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius v. 152 The expiring stages or intermittent lethargy of a volcano.
3. A lethargic or sleepy person. Obsolete.
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.

Etymology: < lethargy n.
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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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