单词 | palsied |
释义 | palsiedadj. Affected with palsy, paralysed. Also figurative: deprived of muscular energy or power of action; rendered impotent; tottering, trembling. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1551 |
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