paralyticadj.adv.n.

Brit.

/ˌparəˈlɪtɪk/, U.S.

/ˌpɛrəˈlɪdɪk/

Forms: Middle English paralatyke, Middle English paraletik, Middle English paralityk, Middle English paralityke, Middle English parerlitik (perhaps transmission error), Middle English parlatyk, Middle English peralatik, Middle English–1500s paralitic, Middle English–1500s paralitik, Middle English–1500s paralitike, 1500s paraletike, 1500s paralytyke, 1500s peralytike, 1500s–1600s paralitick, 1500s–1600s paraliticke, 1500s–1600s paralitique, 1600s paralytik, 1600s paralytique, 1600s parelitick, 1600s–1800s paralytick, 1600s– paralytic, 1700s–1800s paraletic, 1900s– paralatic (Irish English). N.E.D. (1904) also records forms Middle English paraletike, Middle English paralytyk, Middle English peralytyk. See also parlatic adj.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French paralitik, paralytique.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paralitik, paralatike and Middle French paralytique, adjective and noun (c1256 in Old French as paralitike ; French paralytique ) < classical Latin paralyticus (noun) a person affected by paralysis, in post-classical Latin also (adjective) afflicted with paralysis (from 7th or 8th cent. in British sources), characterized by paralysis (12th cent. in a British source) < Hellenistic Greek παραλυτικός affected by paralysis (New Testament) < ancient Greek παραλύειν to disable, enfeeble (see paralysis n.) + -τικός, suffix forming adjectives from verbs.For earlier use of classical Latin paralyticus (noun) in an English context compare: ▸ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 51 In paraliticis & leprosis, þe hondes of ham ben I-schronke & croked.

A. adj. (and adv.)

a. Affected by or suffering from paralysis; = paralysed adj. Now rare.

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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

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 83^v Þe palesye is somtyme in þe heed..and somtyme in þe membre paralitik.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1095 Ȝet comen lodly to þat Lede, as lazares monye..Poysened and parlatyk and pyned in fyres.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 3 Of þe paralityke man lette down in hys bedde.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 60 (MED) Who deliteth with a woman the belly full, he shall be paraletik yf he vse it moch.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Morpheus..gart al my spreitis vital ande animal be cum impotent & paralitic.

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ ii. lvi. 340 If the Paralitick member do grow less and less..it is hard to cure.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Anæsthesia, a Defect of Sensation, as in Paralytic and blasted Persons.

1773 S. Johnson Let. 17 Aug. (1992) II. 53 An old Lady who talks broad Scotch with a paralytick voice.

1788 Lady E. Butler Jrnl. 31 July in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) v. 120 Lady Derby there: limbs paraletic. Cannot walk without the assistance of two persons.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxi. 303 He glanced..at his shabby clothes and paralytic limb.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. viii. 193 The former rector had been deaf, paralytic, and all but blind.

1995 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 26 Sept. (Times Extra section) 19 [He] has never had a wheelchair as he has been using his paralytic legs, although inadequately, to get around.

b. Of a (form of a) disease: characterized by paralysis.

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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 > characterized by

paralytic1684

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Tract Scurvy in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 184 Paralytick Affections, viz. Impotency, or the Resolution of one or more of the Members.

1707 J. Pechey Compl. Herbal (ed. 2) 239/1 'Tis very good in all Paralytick Diseases.

1775 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 3) at Head of a horse The diseases of the head..are, an apoplexy, a lethargy or sleeping evil, an epilepsy, a palsy, or paralytic disorders.

1854 Asylum Jrnl. No. 4. 48/1 Paralytic-dementia, in which there is a particular proneness to corruption of the blood, is represented by all writers as much more prevalent among men.

1890 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. 279 (heading) General paralysis of the insane (paralytic dementia).

1948 O. Breland Animal Facts & Fallacies i. 45 The bats also transmit diseases... One of the worst is the frequently fatal paralytic rabies which has occasionally been transmitted to human beings.

1976 Yorkshire Evening Press 9 Dec. 1/5 A seven-month-old baby from Kippax, near Leeds, is in hospital with paralytic polio according to health authorities.

1996 New Scientist 24 Feb. 9/3 The best known planktonic poisoners are the dinoflagellates responsible for diarrhoeic shellfish poisoning and paralytic shellfish poisoning, two serious illnesses contracted through eating contaminated shellfish.

c. Of the nature of paralysis; of or relating to paralysis. Also: of or relating to general paralysis (general paresis) (now historical).

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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

paralytical1586

paralytica1715

palsical1716

neuroparalytic1869

paralysant1875

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 158 He fell into a paralytick state.

1785 Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 538 A sudden suppression of perspiration was followed by a return of her complaints with redoubled violence, and some paralytic symptoms.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 529 The General, who had sustained a second paralytic attack.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 22 The unevenness of gait and feebleness of gesture which tell of a past paralytic seizure.

1878 C. T. Kingzett Animal Chem. 53 Paralytic saliva is very thin.

1970 O. Sacks Migraine iii. 90 The apparent weakness resolves itself, on questioning or examining the patient, into an apractic rather than a paralytic deficit.

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness iii. xi. 249 Generally presenting dropsical symptoms, with paralytic weakness of the legs, beri-beri travelled across the Pacific from Japan.

a. figurative and in figurative contexts. Deprived or destitute of the ability to act; helpless, powerless, or ineffective.

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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > powerless or helpless

mightlessOE

powerlessc1425

impotent1444

mean1525

unpuissant1568

moyenless1599

aidless1608

impuissant1629

paralytic1642

adynamous1656

impotentiala1657

enervous1677

numb1802

fucked1949

dickless1957

1642 F. Nethersole Considerations Present State 5 Without the strength of that sinew of War, his Cavaliers..can have but paralitique Arms.

1733 M. Masters Poems Several Occasions 204 Time's frail Glass is fill'd with flitting Sand, And held too in a paralytick Hand.

1791 J. Bentham Draught of Code in Wks. (1843) IV. 403 Out of extortion and peculation grow inaccessible justice and paralytic laws.

1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel I. v. 112 The feelings of the soul, like the nerves of the body, are liable to a paralytic numbness.

1862 Mrs. J. B. Speid Our Last Years in India 91 A sort of paralytic attempt at swashbucklerdom and swagger.

1938–41 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) III. 31 When you go down make a good sunset. Never linger superfluous, old and holy and paralytic like India.

1988 P. Toynbee End of Journey 315 Are there no limits to the depths of my paralytic self-concern?

†b. humorous. Shaky or rickety. Obsolete.

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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

1824 J. Galt Rothelan III. 132 A mean abode,..furnished uncouthly with..curiously carved cabinets, paralytic tables [etc.].

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 219 Holding a deformed note with a paralytic direction.

c. colloquial. Extremely drunk, esp. to the point of being unable to do anything. Also as adv. Cf. parlatic adj.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > insensibly drunk

dead drunk1599

to drink (a person) dead drunk1609

paralytic1843

sodden1850

paralysed1870

speechless1881

drunk and incapable1883

dead-oh1889

rumdum1891

passed-out1927

out to it1941

trashed1966

wiped1966

1843 Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 25 Mar. 2/4 We recommend the paraletic Commander-in-Chief, of the army of In-vincibles, not to be seen too often coming home from the ‘little house under the hill’, in Liverpool-street.

1891 Truth (Sydney) 10 May 3/3 This friend was paralytic drunk.

1909 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 3/1 Mr. Hackwood..inquire[s] at large who was the first man..paralatic (a term I have from Ireland), sewed up, nappy, flush, glorious—effectively and effectually drunk.

a1921 E. W. Hornung in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 103 The shanty-keeper he was just as steady as a rock, And me as paralytic as a fool.

1974 O. Clark Diary 13 Apr. (1998) 13 I..saw him on the floor massaging Annette—paralytic drunk.

2015 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Icarus vi. 29 ‘We will never use… a civilish… civ.il.ian… ’ ‘Pal, you’re paralytic.’

3. That renders powerless or immobile; paralysing; paralysant.

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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > making incapable > making powerless or helpless

palsying1640

paralytica1657

paralysing1808

impotentizing1920

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclxxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 97 Richard, bound in Paraliticke Chains Vnder a Tirant's Grate.

1755 C. Arnold Mirror 17 ‘I'll make thee know That this cold Hand can spoil thy haughty Glee,’ With that he struck a paralytic Blow.

1857 T. Martin Aladdin ii. 179 His brief reiterated warning song Has struck all nerve and manhood from my heart, And filled the void with paralytic fears.

1962 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 84 2266/1 Saxitoxin, the paralytic poison isolated from toxic Alaska butter clams (Saxidomus giganteus),..is among the most toxic known substances.

1990 Animals' Agenda Mar. 37/2 Texas mounted an international campaign to legalize use of arrows poisoned with the paralytic drug succinylchloline chloride (SCC).

2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 96 The paralytic action of tetanus and botulism on the nervous system could at last be explained.

B. n.

A person (or †part of the body) affected with paralysis; (with the and plural agreement) paralysed people as a class. Also (more fully general paralytic): a person affected by general paralysis (general paresis).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > person

paralytica1398

palsya1400

contract1483

palsy-sicka1586

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > types of > person

general paralytica1398

hemiplegiac1802

paretic1881

hemiplegic1890

paraplegic1890

tetraplegic1911

quadriplegic1948

para1961

quad1974

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL. Add.) f. 246 Broþ þer of helpeþ and relieueþ toþ ache and bryngeþ paralitik [L. membra paralytica] ofte to felynge.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 23 (MED) Paralitikes ben þo men þat ben siike in þe palesy.

a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 45 (MED) Jhesu heleth..the deffe, the dombe, the croked, the paralatykes, the blynde, and suche as ben encombred wyth the deuyl.

1510 Bonavent. Myrr. Lyfe Jhesu (Pynson) xx. sig. Gj Oure Lorde fyrste forgave the pa [ra] letike his synnes and after he heled him of the bodely palsye.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 77 The Paralytick was..let down through the roof.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi. 118 The sitting still even of a Paralitick, whilst he preferrs it to removal, is truly voluntary.

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iii. 277 Our Saviour, at the healing of the paralytic.

1757 B. Franklin Let. 21 Dec. in Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) (1759) 50 481 A number of paralytics were brought to me..to be electrised.

1800 H. Davy Res. Nitrous Oxide iv. iii. 542 The gas maintains its first character as well in its effects on me, as in the benefit it confers on some of the paralytic.

1856 Asylum Jrnl. Mental Sci. No. 20. 170 General paralytics are not malignant, and although sometimes furious, their passion is gusty and transient.

1917 ‘A-No. 1’ From Coast to Coast with Jack London ii. 22 ‘Stiffy Brandon’. His moniker indicated that for a beggar craft he had chosen..the awful affliction of the paralytic.

1941 T. Warwick Handbk. Venereal Dis. v. 53 The great majority of general paralytics are men.

1958 J. Barth End of Road vi. 91 I think you must have a misconception about what was wrong with me a while ago. I'm not a paralytic.

1997 C. García Agüero Sisters i. 56 The occasional bleating of an illegal goat or the appearance of a horde of paralytics on his doorstep was the only clue to the secret power inside.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	paralytic
释义	paralyticadj.adv.n. Brit. /ˌparəˈlɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈlɪdɪk/ Forms: Middle English paralatyke, Middle English paraletik, Middle English paralityk, Middle English paralityke, Middle English parerlitik (perhaps transmission error), Middle English parlatyk, Middle English peralatik, Middle English–1500s paralitic, Middle English–1500s paralitik, Middle English–1500s paralitike, 1500s paraletike, 1500s paralytyke, 1500s peralytike, 1500s–1600s paralitick, 1500s–1600s paraliticke, 1500s–1600s paralitique, 1600s paralytik, 1600s paralytique, 1600s parelitick, 1600s–1800s paralytick, 1600s– paralytic, 1700s–1800s paraletic, 1900s– paralatic (Irish English). N.E.D. (1904) also records forms Middle English paraletike, Middle English paralytyk, Middle English peralytyk. See also parlatic adj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French paralitik, paralytique. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paralitik, paralatike and Middle French paralytique, adjective and noun (c1256 in Old French as paralitike ; French paralytique ) < classical Latin paralyticus (noun) a person affected by paralysis, in post-classical Latin also (adjective) afflicted with paralysis (from 7th or 8th cent. in British sources), characterized by paralysis (12th cent. in a British source) < Hellenistic Greek παραλυτικός affected by paralysis (New Testament) < ancient Greek παραλύειν to disable, enfeeble (see paralysis n.) + -τικός, suffix forming adjectives from verbs.For earlier use of classical Latin paralyticus (noun) in an English context compare: ▸ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 51 In paraliticis & leprosis, þe hondes of ham ben I-schronke & croked. A. adj. (and adv.) 1. a. Affected by or suffering from paralysis; = paralysed adj. Now rare. 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 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 83^v Þe palesye is somtyme in þe heed..and somtyme in þe membre paralitik. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1095 Ȝet comen lodly to þat Lede, as lazares monye..Poysened and parlatyk and pyned in fyres. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 3 Of þe paralityke man lette down in hys bedde. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 60 (MED) Who deliteth with a woman the belly full, he shall be paraletik yf he vse it moch. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Morpheus..gart al my spreitis vital ande animal be cum impotent & paralitic. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ ii. lvi. 340 If the Paralitick member do grow less and less..it is hard to cure. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Anæsthesia, a Defect of Sensation, as in Paralytic and blasted Persons. 1773 S. Johnson Let. 17 Aug. (1992) II. 53 An old Lady who talks broad Scotch with a paralytick voice. 1788 Lady E. Butler Jrnl. 31 July in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) v. 120 Lady Derby there: limbs paraletic. Cannot walk without the assistance of two persons. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxi. 303 He glanced..at his shabby clothes and paralytic limb. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. viii. 193 The former rector had been deaf, paralytic, and all but blind. 1995 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 26 Sept. (Times Extra section) 19 [He] has never had a wheelchair as he has been using his paralytic legs, although inadequately, to get around. b. Of a (form of a) disease: characterized by paralysis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > characterized by paralytic1684 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Tract Scurvy in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 184 Paralytick Affections, viz. Impotency, or the Resolution of one or more of the Members. 1707 J. Pechey Compl. Herbal (ed. 2) 239/1 'Tis very good in all Paralytick Diseases. 1775 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 3) at Head of a horse The diseases of the head..are, an apoplexy, a lethargy or sleeping evil, an epilepsy, a palsy, or paralytic disorders. 1854 Asylum Jrnl. No. 4. 48/1 Paralytic-dementia, in which there is a particular proneness to corruption of the blood, is represented by all writers as much more prevalent among men. 1890 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. 279 (heading) General paralysis of the insane (paralytic dementia). 1948 O. Breland Animal Facts & Fallacies i. 45 The bats also transmit diseases... One of the worst is the frequently fatal paralytic rabies which has occasionally been transmitted to human beings. 1976 Yorkshire Evening Press 9 Dec. 1/5 A seven-month-old baby from Kippax, near Leeds, is in hospital with paralytic polio according to health authorities. 1996 New Scientist 24 Feb. 9/3 The best known planktonic poisoners are the dinoflagellates responsible for diarrhoeic shellfish poisoning and paralytic shellfish poisoning, two serious illnesses contracted through eating contaminated shellfish. c. Of the nature of paralysis; of or relating to paralysis. Also: of or relating to general paralysis (general paresis) (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis paralytical1586 paralytica1715 palsical1716 neuroparalytic1869 paralysant1875 a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 158 He fell into a paralytick state. 1785 Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 538 A sudden suppression of perspiration was followed by a return of her complaints with redoubled violence, and some paralytic symptoms. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 529 The General, who had sustained a second paralytic attack. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 22 The unevenness of gait and feebleness of gesture which tell of a past paralytic seizure. 1878 C. T. Kingzett Animal Chem. 53 Paralytic saliva is very thin. 1970 O. Sacks Migraine iii. 90 The apparent weakness resolves itself, on questioning or examining the patient, into an apractic rather than a paralytic deficit. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness iii. xi. 249 Generally presenting dropsical symptoms, with paralytic weakness of the legs, beri-beri travelled across the Pacific from Japan. 2. a. figurative and in figurative contexts. Deprived or destitute of the ability to act; helpless, powerless, or ineffective. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > powerless or helpless mightlessOE powerlessc1425 impotent1444 mean1525 unpuissant1568 moyenless1599 aidless1608 impuissant1629 paralytic1642 adynamous1656 impotentiala1657 enervous1677 numb1802 fucked1949 dickless1957 1642 F. Nethersole Considerations Present State 5 Without the strength of that sinew of War, his Cavaliers..can have but paralitique Arms. 1733 M. Masters Poems Several Occasions 204 Time's frail Glass is fill'd with flitting Sand, And held too in a paralytick Hand. 1791 J. Bentham Draught of Code in Wks. (1843) IV. 403 Out of extortion and peculation grow inaccessible justice and paralytic laws. 1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel I. v. 112 The feelings of the soul, like the nerves of the body, are liable to a paralytic numbness. 1862 Mrs. J. B. Speid Our Last Years in India 91 A sort of paralytic attempt at swashbucklerdom and swagger. 1938–41 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) III. 31 When you go down make a good sunset. Never linger superfluous, old and holy and paralytic like India. 1988 P. Toynbee End of Journey 315 Are there no limits to the depths of my paralytic self-concern? †b. humorous. Shaky or rickety. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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 1824 J. Galt Rothelan III. 132 A mean abode,..furnished uncouthly with..curiously carved cabinets, paralytic tables [etc.]. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 219 Holding a deformed note with a paralytic direction. c. colloquial. Extremely drunk, esp. to the point of being unable to do anything. Also as adv. Cf. parlatic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > insensibly drunk dead drunk1599 to drink (a person) dead drunk1609 paralytic1843 sodden1850 paralysed1870 speechless1881 drunk and incapable1883 dead-oh1889 rumdum1891 passed-out1927 out to it1941 trashed1966 wiped1966 1843 Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 25 Mar. 2/4 We recommend the paraletic Commander-in-Chief, of the army of In-vincibles, not to be seen too often coming home from the ‘little house under the hill’, in Liverpool-street. 1891 Truth (Sydney) 10 May 3/3 This friend was paralytic drunk. 1909 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 3/1 Mr. Hackwood..inquire[s] at large who was the first man..paralatic (a term I have from Ireland), sewed up, nappy, flush, glorious—effectively and effectually drunk. a1921 E. W. Hornung in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 103 The shanty-keeper he was just as steady as a rock, And me as paralytic as a fool. 1974 O. Clark Diary 13 Apr. (1998) 13 I..saw him on the floor massaging Annette—paralytic drunk. 2015 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Icarus vi. 29 ‘We will never use… a civilish… civ.il.ian… ’ ‘Pal, you’re paralytic.’ 3. That renders powerless or immobile; paralysing; paralysant. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > making incapable > making powerless or helpless palsying1640 paralytica1657 paralysing1808 impotentizing1920 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclxxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 97 Richard, bound in Paraliticke Chains Vnder a Tirant's Grate. 1755 C. Arnold Mirror 17 ‘I'll make thee know That this cold Hand can spoil thy haughty Glee,’ With that he struck a paralytic Blow. 1857 T. Martin Aladdin ii. 179 His brief reiterated warning song Has struck all nerve and manhood from my heart, And filled the void with paralytic fears. 1962 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 84 2266/1 Saxitoxin, the paralytic poison isolated from toxic Alaska butter clams (Saxidomus giganteus),..is among the most toxic known substances. 1990 Animals' Agenda Mar. 37/2 Texas mounted an international campaign to legalize use of arrows poisoned with the paralytic drug succinylchloline chloride (SCC). 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 96 The paralytic action of tetanus and botulism on the nervous system could at last be explained. B. n. A person (or †part of the body) affected with paralysis; (with the and plural agreement) paralysed people as a class. Also (more fully general paralytic): a person affected by general paralysis (general paresis). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > person paralytica1398 palsya1400 contract1483 palsy-sicka1586 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > types of > person general paralytica1398 hemiplegiac1802 paretic1881 hemiplegic1890 paraplegic1890 tetraplegic1911 quadriplegic1948 para1961 quad1974 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL. Add.) f. 246 Broþ þer of helpeþ and relieueþ toþ ache and bryngeþ paralitik [L. membra paralytica] ofte to felynge. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 23 (MED) Paralitikes ben þo men þat ben siike in þe palesy. a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 45 (MED) Jhesu heleth..the deffe, the dombe, the croked, the paralatykes, the blynde, and suche as ben encombred wyth the deuyl. 1510 Bonavent. Myrr. Lyfe Jhesu (Pynson) xx. sig. Gj Oure Lorde fyrste forgave the pa [ra] letike his synnes and after he heled him of the bodely palsye. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 77 The Paralytick was..let down through the roof. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi. 118 The sitting still even of a Paralitick, whilst he preferrs it to removal, is truly voluntary. 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iii. 277 Our Saviour, at the healing of the paralytic. 1757 B. Franklin Let. 21 Dec. in Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) (1759) 50 481 A number of paralytics were brought to me..to be electrised. 1800 H. Davy Res. Nitrous Oxide iv. iii. 542 The gas maintains its first character as well in its effects on me, as in the benefit it confers on some of the paralytic. 1856 Asylum Jrnl. Mental Sci. No. 20. 170 General paralytics are not malignant, and although sometimes furious, their passion is gusty and transient. 1917 ‘A-No. 1’ From Coast to Coast with Jack London ii. 22 ‘Stiffy Brandon’. His moniker indicated that for a beggar craft he had chosen..the awful affliction of the paralytic. 1941 T. Warwick Handbk. Venereal Dis. v. 53 The great majority of general paralytics are men. 1958 J. Barth End of Road vi. 91 I think you must have a misconception about what was wrong with me a while ago. I'm not a paralytic. 1997 C. García Agüero Sisters i. 56 The occasional bleating of an illegal goat or the appearance of a horde of paralytics on his doorstep was the only clue to the secret power inside. 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