单词 | mother-fit |
释义 | > as lemmasmother-fit mother-fit n. now historical = sense 9; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ 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 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria > fit of suffocation (also rising, fit) of the mother1615 mother-fit1657 hysterics1664 hystericals1797 conniption1833 1657 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 65 Mother-fits. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. i. 4 A Thong hereof ty'd about the middle, is of good use..especially against Mother-Fits. 1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives viii. 204 To brew..‘simples’ against ‘mother-fits’. 1942 Biometrika 32 205 He remembered that some women troubled with the Mother fits did complain of a choking in their throats. < as lemmas |
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