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单词 panical
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panicaladj.

Forms: 1600s panicall, 1600s–1800s panical.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: French panique ; Greek πανικός ; -al suffix1.
Etymology: < Middle French, French panique or its etymon Hellenistic Greek πανικός panic adj. + -al suffix1. Compare slightly earlier panic adj. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pæ·nikăl) /ˈpænɪkəl/.
Obsolete.
1. = panic adj. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adjective] > of or pert to panic(s)
panicala1600
panic1603
a1600 R. Hooker Learned Serm. Pride in Wks. (1841) III. 615 What are they but panical terrors.
1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 7 Chaucer our English Homer in the description of the sodaine stirre and Panicall feare when Chanteclere the cocke was caried away by Reynold the Foxe.
1858 Rotteck's Hist. World 385 Immediately, seized with panical fright, the battalions separated.
1890 W. C. Russell My Shipmate Louise xx. 128 Was ever panical terror more incomparably suggested?
2. = panic adj. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of or relating to Pan
panical1640
Pandean1807
panic1890
1640 A. Hart Alexto & Angelica 30 Let not thy brave, heroicke mind, stoope unto so base and [l]ascivious a lure fit for none but Panicall rusticks.
1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece III. 235 The Sun produces Angelical, Demoniacal, Heroical, Nymphical, Panical, and such-like powers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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