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单词 palsied
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palsiedadj.

Brit. /ˈpɔːlzɪd/, /ˈpɒlzɪd/, U.S. /ˈpɔlzid/, /ˈpɑlzid/
Forms: 1500s palseyd, 1600s palsy'd, 1600s– palsied.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: palsy n.1, -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < palsy n.1 + -ed suffix2. Compare later palsy v. N.E.D. (1904) gives only the pronunciation (pǭ·lzid) /ˈpɔːlzɪd/.
Affected with palsy, paralysed. Also figurative: deprived of muscular energy or power of action; rendered impotent; tottering, trembling.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > suffering from
lamec725
paralytica1398
palsya1500
lither1513
palsied1551
shrew-run1607
stupid1634
paralysed1763
paretic1822
palsying1834
shrew-afflicted1842
shrew-struck1850
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety
seely1562
crazy1583
ramshackled1675
creachy1715
rickly1715
rickety1741
palsified1775
shackling1790
ramshackling1815
paralytic1824
rackety1824
rattletrap1824
cocklety1828
ramshackle1830
shickery?1833
shackly1843
shattery1844
shaky1850
ramshackly1857
cockly1859
rachitic1864
ruckly1866
tumble-over1883
palsied1889
rattle-bag1896
shauchly1896
bockety1902
ruggy1929
rickety-rackety1931
ropy1942
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xcvi As that so many sycke, so many blynde, so many..palseyd, leprosed..were by them [sc. the Apostles] as by him [sc. Becket] deliuered.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 36 For all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth begge the almes Of palsied -Eld. View more context for this quotation
1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 173 But though her other Parts were thus decrepit, yet her old Palsied Tongue was lively.
1696 P. A. Motteux Loves of Mars & Venus i. 6 On Love's expanded Wings expecting Lovers move But slow as palsied age expected Lovers prove.
1756 C. Smart Hymn Supreme Being xi He fix'd the palsied nerves of weak decay.
1778 R. Cumberland Battle of Hastings iv. i. 68 Shake her with palsied ugliness, ye demons.
1814 R. Southey Roderick v. 64 He did not feel how Roderick's hand Shook like a palsied limb.
1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God iii. 62 From the palsied hands of Greece, Rome rudely snatched the sceptre.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Edinburgh 58 Old palsied houses.
1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 56 Worse than death The palsied soul, the mildewed brain.
1991 M. Duffy Illuminations (1992) 140 She feels as if the muscles of her face have stiffened, are palsied and have to be worked by a conscious will.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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