rheumaticadj.n.

Brit.

/ruːˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/ruˈmædɪk/

Forms: Middle English reumatic, Middle English reumatik, Middle English reunatik (transmission error), Middle English rewmatik, Middle English rewmetike, 1500s reumaticke, 1500s reumatike, 1500s reumatique, 1500s reumatyke, 1500s rewmatike, 1500s rheumatique, 1500s rumatike, 1500s rumatique, 1500s rumiticke, 1500s–1600s rewmaticke, 1500s–1600s rheumatike, 1500s–1600s rumaticke, 1500s–1700s rheumatick, 1600s rewmatick, 1600s rheumaticke, 1600s rhewmatick, 1600s rhumaticke, 1600s rhumatike, 1600s– rheumatic, 1800s rumatick (English regional); also Scottish (in sense B. 2a) 1800s roomatics, 1800s rumaticks, 1800s– rheumaticks; also English regional (in sense B. 2a) 1800s– rheumaticks, 1900s– roomatics (Norfolk); also Irish English (northern) (in sense B. 2a) 1800s roomytics.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reumatique; Latin rheumaticus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman reumatike, Anglo-Norman and Middle French reumatique, Middle French rumatique, reugmatique (French rhumatique , now rare) consisting of or containing rheum, suffering from an abnormal flow or discharge of rheum, (of a place) likely to cause rheumatism (1314 in Old French; mid 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman in sense ‘(of the air) damp’) and its etymon classical Latin rheumaticus of or relating to morbid discharges, (noun) person suffering from these complaints, also rheumaticum (neuter noun) affliction involving morbid discharge (from the eye) < ancient Greek ῥευματικός subject to a discharge or flux < ῥευματ- , ῥεῦμα rheum n.¹ + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Spanish reumático (15th cent.), Italian reumatico (1546). Compare rheum n.¹, and later rheumatism n.

A. adj.

†1.

a. Of the nature of rheum; consisting of or containing rheum (see rheum n.¹ 1a); = rheumy adj. 1. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective]

rheumatica1398

phlegmy?c1425

phlegmaticc1503

mucous1578

pituitous1578

rheumy1583

phlegmatical1586

pituous1617

pituitose1710

mucoid1849

mucoidal1849

myxoid1890

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxxv. 236 Þe longe is greued..somtyme by reumatik [MS reunatik] humour comynge to þe pypis of þe longe, and þanne ben diuers passiouns ibred..as squynancy, tisik, kouȝhe, hoosnes, rownes of þe voys.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 492 (MED) It is grauntede by Rogeryne..to drye þe reumatik mater (and moste in children).

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 19^v (MED) In þis same boon..þer beþ oþere litel hoolis..bi the whiche summe reumatik superfluytes beþ sent out from þe brayn.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. liii A reumatyke humour suppressynge the brayne.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B2 After hee had..spunged..all the rumatike driuell from his ill fauoured Goates beard.

1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. E2^v More salt Rewmatick water runnes out of them, than would pickle all the Herrings that shall come out of Yarmouth.

1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours xiii. 158 The Blood taken away looked very Sizie or Rheumatic.

b. Full of rheum; overflowing or dripping with rheum; = rheumy adj. 3. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective] > full of or covered with

gleimousa1398

rheumatic1599

rheumy1605

muculent1656

submucous1684

mucose1731

rheumeda1821

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Shee..had rumatique sore eyes that ran alwaies.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xx. 69 Rheumaticke ulcers.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 71 He was wiping his rheumatick nose.

1672 R. Boyle Ess. Origine & Virtues Gems 128 Lapis Tutiæ..is also much imploy'd in Rheumatick Eyes.

1702 J. Moyle Chirurgus Marinus (ed. 4) xlviii. 310 This excelleth all other Ocular Colyriums whatever, in..things that Obfuscate the sight; yea, and Blood-shot and Rheumatic Eyes.

1775 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Rheumatic Eyes in horses, are caused by a flux of humours distilling from the brain, and sometimes by a blow; the signs are, the continual watering of the eye, and his close shutting the lids.

†c. In extended use: (a) tearful; (b) phlegmatic. rare.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > of feelings, qualities, etc.

rheumatica1627

lethargine1656

lethargean1659

lethargical1661

vigourless1759

lethargized1817

Monday-morning1921

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective]

weepingc900

wopi?c1225

greetingfula1340

greetyc1350

weeplyc1374

weepfula1382

weepinglyc1440

lachrymablec1450

moistc1450

lachrymous1490

rainy1563

tearfula1586

greeting1588

collachrymate1593

crying1594

onion-eyeda1616

maudlinc1616

rheumatica1627

fluxed1628

lachrymalc1630

crystal-droppinga1650

showery1654

lugent1656

Niobean1665

lachrymary1693

lachrymose1727

moist-eyed1797

larmoyant1824

pluviose1824

ploratory1831

lachrymating1837

screwmatic1847

pipy1861

weepy1863

blarting1898

leaky1905

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttt4/2 The Rhumaticke story of some loving Chandler.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 762 We present him with a sleepy, sickly, rheumatick service.

†a. Of a person: suffering from an abnormal flow or discharge of rheum. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge > catarrh

phlegmatica1398

rheumatic?a1425

catarrhal1651

gastro-catarrhal1833

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > common cold or catarrh

rheumatic?a1425

colded1486

catarrhal1651

catarrhous1651

catarrhish1689

sniffly1927

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 76^v (MED) Þat þis cure be artificiale is proued bi Galien..which dide it at Rome in a reumatic man..suffryng apostem empimicus in þe thorace.

1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 190 By sleeping in an ayry place, you haue ben very rumatike.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biij^v Were I hard-fauourd, foule, or wrinckled old,..Ore-worne, despised, reumatique, and cold.

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion viii. 19 A defluction which fell upon my Lungs did make me very rheumatick.

1661 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 13/1 They are good for Rhewmatick people to chew in their mouth, for they draw forth much water.

b. Affected with or predisposed to rheumatism. Also figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis > affected with

arthritic?a1425

arthritical1528

rheumatic1728

rheumaticky1852

osteoarthritic1891

polyarthritic1901

osteoarthrotic1964

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rheumatism The Urine of Rheumatic People does not afford above a thirtieth Part of the Alcaline Salt found in that of healthful People.

1785 S. J. Pratt Misc. I. 114 The man with the rheumatic legs..was at last, compell'd to fly.

1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 608/1 We have seen leeches when applied to a rheumatic joint prematurely..exasperate every symptom.

1852 S. Thomson Dict. Domest. Med. 442/2 Many rheumatic patients find their chief protection in an underdress of chamois leather.

1866 Every Sat. 4 Aug. 131/1 Our equipage consisted, at such times, of a very rheumatic carriage, and four still more rheumatic horses.

1908 E. F. Benson Climber 140 By then..I shall be raddled in the face and rheumatic in the joints.

1934 E. Sitwell Aspects Mod. Poetry i. 14 The cramped and rheumatic eight-syllable lines..are not suitable to his themes.

1992 P. Ling Flood Water (1993) (BNC) 32 As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her, she toddled round to the Rope Walk.

2005 B. Gonzalez Mapmaker's Opera 57 His rheumatic legs were a torture.

3. Of, or with allusion to, climate, atmospheric conditions, the air, etc.

†a. Inducing a flow of rheum. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > common cold or catarrh > causing

rheumatic?a1425

catch-cold1792

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 25 (MED) Þerfor in þe first be þer chosen aer clene..& clere noȝt humid ne reumatic.

1565 Abp. M. Parker Let. 29 Dec. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 250 If any offence be taken for my not oft attending, and to come over the reumatike Tempsis.

1589 G. Peele Eglogue Gratulatorie xxxviii And evening air is rheumatick and cold.

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. C2 The Sun..hath..refind that thicke tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throwes abroad.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. i. 44 In your doublet and hose, this raw-rumaticke day?

a1680 N. Wanley Hist. Man (1704) cxxvi. 517 A black Gorsy Soil, a raw Rheumatick Air, or some craggy and squalid, wild disconsolate Hills.

b. Of weather, or a place or its climate: tending to induce or exacerbate rheumatism.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis > causing

rheumatic1764

rheumatizing1852

1764 E. Carter Let. 18 May in Lett. Mrs. Montagu (1817) I. lx. 215 This treacherous sunshine..conceals the severity of the north-east wind,..for this is sad rheumatic weather; I am seized by the neck and one arm.

1833 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 39 10 At Bermuda rheumatism does not bear the proportion of a sixteenth... Yet the popular and medico-popular opinion..is, that Bermuda is a rheumatic climate.

1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 23 Church towers are..warmer and less rheumatic than hollow trees.

1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 14 India is a very rheumatic country.

1949 D. Thomas Let. 17 Feb. (1987) 700 I wish I could speedily return to Scotland: here it is low and sodden, moley and owly, rheumatic, cloddish.

2001 J. B. Gordon in S. I. Salamensky Talk, Talk, Talk iii. xv. 207 The foggy, rheumatic climate of Bleak House.

4. Of a disease.

†a. Caused by the abnormal production or flow of rheum; characterized by the discharge of rheum; catarrhal. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge

rheumatic?c1425

mucous1754

blennorrhagic1879

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis

rheumatic?c1425

rheumatical1684

rheumatismatic1695

rheumatismal1820

rheumatoid1845

rheumatoidal1848

screwmatic1893

palindromic1941

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 569 (MED) Suche cauteries helpe..to ham þat haue þe ptisik, and to alle reumatik passiouns.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 82 Thys woode hath a synguler propertie..agaynste many other moyste and rumiticke sicknesses.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 105 The Moone (the gouernesse of floods)..washes all the aire; That Rheumaticke diseases doe abound.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 136/1 Rewmatick, or the Slavering Madness.

1694 J. Peachi Some Observ. Calumba Wood 5 A young Gentlewoman extreamly afflicted with Rheumatick Distempers, and by going often into Hot-houses to sweat, had brought her self into Hectick Feavers.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 95 This Draught usually gives great Relief in a (let me call it) Guttural Rheumatic and Evening Cough, caused by catching Cold.

b. Of the nature of or resembling rheumatism. In later use also: (Medicine) designating any of a diverse group of diseases, often of inflammatory or autoimmune origin, which affect the joints, muscles, or, more generally, connective tissue, and which form the subject matter of rheumatology.See also rheumatic fever n.

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1715 P. Kennedy Ess. External Remedies iii. 56 Sweating in the Salt Pans, is of wonderful Use in Rheumatic, Arthritic, Paralytic, or Nervous Distempers.

1783 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 1 152 A kind of arthritis vaga (or what is vulgarly called rheumatic gout).

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 518/2 We are acquainted with no disease which more frequently produces deformity of the hand and fingers than chronic rheumatism (chronic rheumatic arthritis).

1861 G. Hartwig Pract. Treat. Sea-bathing & Sea-air (ed. 2) ii. 15 Rheumatic and arthritical complaints are not unfrequently followed by permanent weakness or lameness of the affected part.

1890 H. Lane Differentiation in Rheumatic Dis. 13 In rheumatic arthritis we have found a monarthritis more the exception than the rule.

1933 Lancet 16 Dec. 1408/1 It has hot acid and alkaline waters, and volcanic muds, and reports show that their value in rheumatic diseases of the soft tissues can be attributed to their influence on the circulation.

1991 Here's Health Jan. 29/2 The thermal water..benefits rheumatic and arthritic disorders.

2007 Independent 19 Feb. (Extra section) 4/1 Bee venom stimulates the release of cortisone (cortisol) and is said to be effective in treating rheumatic diseases.

5. Of, relating to, or characteristic of rheumatism or (Medicine) rheumatic diseases (see sense A. 4b).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis > relating to

rheumatic1699

1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick Introd. sig. A3^v They were generally taken with Coughs, Drowsiness, moveable Ioint-pains, commonly termed Rheumatic Pains.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 19 Sept. (1948) I. 363 She is lame in one of her legs with a rheumatick pain.

1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 290 Trefoil..is of singular service in all arthritic and rheumatic Pains.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. viii. 88 A slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders.

a1836 R. Williams Medicine in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 681 In scarlatina the joints are often the seat of the severest rheumatic inflammation.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Mar. 510/2 Rheumatic pyrexia.

1905 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1904 37 113 Ranunculus rivularis. (Waoriki.) The expressed juice, which has blistering qualities, is used for rheumatic..joint-diseases.

1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty iv. 82 Nance gave a rheumatic prance and a galumph like a cloth horse in a pantomime.

1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 55/2 (advt.) These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheumatic pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness.

1976 Lancet 27 Nov. 1202/2 The hospital's closure was strenuously opposed by the consultant rheumatologists to whom it was obvious that to halve the number of beds in the regional centre would gravely impair the rheumatic service.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons at D. W. Winnicott For ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic.

1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) iii. 55 Pritchard had used aconite, a drug extracted from monkshood or wolfbane root, and used to be applied externally to treat rheumatic complaints.

B. n.

1. A person suffering from rheumatism or a rheumatic disease.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis > person

rheumatic1738

1738 J. Burton Treat. Non-naturals ii. 123 The Blood of the Rheumatics was not so much inflam'd this Year as in the former.

1767 D. Schulz von Schulzenheim Acct. Inoculation Small-pox 20 Rheumatics full of Blood and who have glutinous Serum, get generally a favourable Kind, and few Physicians hesitate upon inoculating them.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxvi. 83 Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is a rheumatic.

1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 439/2 Rheumatics, who so largely preponderate among the invalided visitors.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 12 560 It is a peculiarity of this disease [sc. rheumatoid arthritis] that patients are not affected by changes from dry to humid climate, as are rheumatics.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. vii. 117 Charles Fox Parham was a sickly rheumatic who ran a small Bible school in Topeka, Kansas, in the closing years of the nineteenth century.

2008 Jrnl. Chem. Health & Safety 15 5/2 Physicians monitored the amount of salicyluric acid in the urine of rheumatics.

a. colloquial. In plural. Rheumatic pains; rheumatism. Frequently with the.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis

arthritis1543

rheum1667

rheumatism1670

rheumatiz1760

rheumatica1796

arthrosia1822

screwmatic1832

rheumatoid arthritis1859

arthritism1868

polyarthritis1868

osteoarthritis1878

panarthritis1890

screw1897

Still's disease1905

rheumatic1918

osteoarthrosis1932

RA1957

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 791 Whan fevers burn, or agues freeze us, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeeze us.

1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) IV. 166 John's hands were so contracted by the rheumatics that had settled in them.

1836 London Med. Gaz. 22 Oct. 117/2 ‘I think,’ to use the language of the lower classes, ‘I have got the rheumatics,’ means simply that the patient has pains in his limbs.

1852 S. Thomson Dict. Domest. Med. 439/2 The acute form of rheumatism..is popularly named the ‘rheumatics’, whilst the chronic form..is known..in vulgar parlance as ‘the rheumatiz’.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 57 The ‘rheumatics’ so often complained of by elderly patients.

1944 ‘F. O'Connor’ Crab Apple Jelly 91 The sergeant-major was at his heels,..cracking jokes about his rheumatics till she had him lepping.

1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 42 With his rheumatics he wasn't able to bend down to pick the fiver up.

2000 K. Cushman Matilda Bone 157 She stopped to rub her shoulders. ‘The rheumatics,’ she explained... ‘I being attendant on a bonesetter know something of the rheumatics.’

b. In singular with the. Rheumatism. Chiefly English regional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis

arthritis1543

rheum1667

rheumatism1670

rheumatiz1760

rheumatica1796

arthrosia1822

screwmatic1832

rheumatoid arthritis1859

arthritism1868

polyarthritis1868

osteoarthritis1878

panarthritis1890

screw1897

Still's disease1905

rheumatic1918

osteoarthrosis1932

RA1957

1918 V. Woolf Diary 16 July (1977) I. 169 He is a ridiculous figure precisely like the false Mandrill, especially now that he's bent with the rheumatic, & can only creep and crawl.

1963 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 53 But I've got the rheumatic now in here and in here and the knee.

Derivatives

rheuˈmatic-ˌlike adj. (of a symptom) resembling that of rheumatism or rheumatic disease.

ΚΠ

1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 461 This idea is countenanced by the frequent change of place of rheumatic-like gouty inflammations.

1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 11 14 Chills or rigors, and rheumatic like aches, in the joints, or wandering about the cavities of the body, also exist.

1903 Med. Rec. 64 612/2 Rheumatic-like swellings of joints were absent in this case.

1998 J. A. Delle Archaeol. Social Space vi. 163 The disease [sc. yaws] is characterized by rheumatic-like bone aches, fungous oozing pustules, and in advanced stages, by destruction of the facial bones.

† rheumaticness n. Obsolete rare rheumatic tendency or predisposition.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Rheumatickness, subjectness to be afflicted with a Rheumatism.

1892 J. H. Clark Rheumatism & Sciatica 56 There is a condition which might almost be called ‘rheumaticness’, rather than any definite form of rheumatism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rheumatic
释义	rheumaticadj.n. Brit. /ruːˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ruˈmædɪk/ Forms: Middle English reumatic, Middle English reumatik, Middle English reunatik (transmission error), Middle English rewmatik, Middle English rewmetike, 1500s reumaticke, 1500s reumatike, 1500s reumatique, 1500s reumatyke, 1500s rewmatike, 1500s rheumatique, 1500s rumatike, 1500s rumatique, 1500s rumiticke, 1500s–1600s rewmaticke, 1500s–1600s rheumatike, 1500s–1600s rumaticke, 1500s–1700s rheumatick, 1600s rewmatick, 1600s rheumaticke, 1600s rhewmatick, 1600s rhumaticke, 1600s rhumatike, 1600s– rheumatic, 1800s rumatick (English regional); also Scottish (in sense B. 2a) 1800s roomatics, 1800s rumaticks, 1800s– rheumaticks; also English regional (in sense B. 2a) 1800s– rheumaticks, 1900s– roomatics (Norfolk); also Irish English (northern) (in sense B. 2a) 1800s roomytics. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reumatique; Latin rheumaticus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman reumatike, Anglo-Norman and Middle French reumatique, Middle French rumatique, reugmatique (French rhumatique , now rare) consisting of or containing rheum, suffering from an abnormal flow or discharge of rheum, (of a place) likely to cause rheumatism (1314 in Old French; mid 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman in sense ‘(of the air) damp’) and its etymon classical Latin rheumaticus of or relating to morbid discharges, (noun) person suffering from these complaints, also rheumaticum (neuter noun) affliction involving morbid discharge (from the eye) < ancient Greek ῥευματικός subject to a discharge or flux < ῥευματ- , ῥεῦμα rheum n.¹ + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Spanish reumático (15th cent.), Italian reumatico (1546). Compare rheum n.¹, and later rheumatism n. A. adj. †1. a. Of the nature of rheum; consisting of or containing rheum (see rheum n.¹ 1a); = rheumy adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective] rheumatica1398 phlegmy?c1425 phlegmaticc1503 mucous1578 pituitous1578 rheumy1583 phlegmatical1586 pituous1617 pituitose1710 mucoid1849 mucoidal1849 myxoid1890 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxxv. 236 Þe longe is greued..somtyme by reumatik [MS reunatik] humour comynge to þe pypis of þe longe, and þanne ben diuers passiouns ibred..as squynancy, tisik, kouȝhe, hoosnes, rownes of þe voys. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 492 (MED) It is grauntede by Rogeryne..to drye þe reumatik mater (and moste in children). c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 19^v (MED) In þis same boon..þer beþ oþere litel hoolis..bi the whiche summe reumatik superfluytes beþ sent out from þe brayn. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. liii A reumatyke humour suppressynge the brayne. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B2 After hee had..spunged..all the rumatike driuell from his ill fauoured Goates beard. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. E2^v More salt Rewmatick water runnes out of them, than would pickle all the Herrings that shall come out of Yarmouth. 1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours xiii. 158 The Blood taken away looked very Sizie or Rheumatic. b. Full of rheum; overflowing or dripping with rheum; = rheumy adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective] > full of or covered with gleimousa1398 rheumatic1599 rheumy1605 muculent1656 submucous1684 mucose1731 rheumeda1821 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Shee..had rumatique sore eyes that ran alwaies. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xx. 69 Rheumaticke ulcers. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 71 He was wiping his rheumatick nose. 1672 R. Boyle Ess. Origine & Virtues Gems 128 Lapis Tutiæ..is also much imploy'd in Rheumatick Eyes. 1702 J. Moyle Chirurgus Marinus (ed. 4) xlviii. 310 This excelleth all other Ocular Colyriums whatever, in..things that Obfuscate the sight; yea, and Blood-shot and Rheumatic Eyes. 1775 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Rheumatic Eyes in horses, are caused by a flux of humours distilling from the brain, and sometimes by a blow; the signs are, the continual watering of the eye, and his close shutting the lids. †c. In extended use: (a) tearful; (b) phlegmatic. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > of feelings, qualities, etc. rheumatica1627 lethargine1656 lethargean1659 lethargical1661 vigourless1759 lethargized1817 Monday-morning1921 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] weepingc900 wopi?c1225 greetingfula1340 greetyc1350 weeplyc1374 weepfula1382 weepinglyc1440 lachrymablec1450 moistc1450 lachrymous1490 rainy1563 tearfula1586 greeting1588 collachrymate1593 crying1594 onion-eyeda1616 maudlinc1616 rheumatica1627 fluxed1628 lachrymalc1630 crystal-droppinga1650 showery1654 lugent1656 Niobean1665 lachrymary1693 lachrymose1727 moist-eyed1797 larmoyant1824 pluviose1824 ploratory1831 lachrymating1837 screwmatic1847 pipy1861 weepy1863 blarting1898 leaky1905 a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttt4/2 The Rhumaticke story of some loving Chandler. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 762 We present him with a sleepy, sickly, rheumatick service. 2. †a. Of a person: suffering from an abnormal flow or discharge of rheum. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge > catarrh phlegmatica1398 rheumatic?a1425 catarrhal1651 gastro-catarrhal1833 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > common cold or catarrh rheumatic?a1425 colded1486 catarrhal1651 catarrhous1651 catarrhish1689 sniffly1927 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 76^v (MED) Þat þis cure be artificiale is proued bi Galien..which dide it at Rome in a reumatic man..suffryng apostem empimicus in þe thorace. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 190 By sleeping in an ayry place, you haue ben very rumatike. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biij^v Were I hard-fauourd, foule, or wrinckled old,..Ore-worne, despised, reumatique, and cold. View more context for this quotation 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion viii. 19 A defluction which fell upon my Lungs did make me very rheumatick. 1661 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 13/1 They are good for Rhewmatick people to chew in their mouth, for they draw forth much water. b. Affected with or predisposed to rheumatism. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis > affected with arthritic?a1425 arthritical1528 rheumatic1728 rheumaticky1852 osteoarthritic1891 polyarthritic1901 osteoarthrotic1964 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rheumatism The Urine of Rheumatic People does not afford above a thirtieth Part of the Alcaline Salt found in that of healthful People. 1785 S. J. Pratt Misc. I. 114 The man with the rheumatic legs..was at last, compell'd to fly. 1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 608/1 We have seen leeches when applied to a rheumatic joint prematurely..exasperate every symptom. 1852 S. Thomson Dict. Domest. Med. 442/2 Many rheumatic patients find their chief protection in an underdress of chamois leather. 1866 Every Sat. 4 Aug. 131/1 Our equipage consisted, at such times, of a very rheumatic carriage, and four still more rheumatic horses. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 140 By then..I shall be raddled in the face and rheumatic in the joints. 1934 E. Sitwell Aspects Mod. Poetry i. 14 The cramped and rheumatic eight-syllable lines..are not suitable to his themes. 1992 P. Ling Flood Water (1993) (BNC) 32 As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her, she toddled round to the Rope Walk. 2005 B. Gonzalez Mapmaker's Opera 57 His rheumatic legs were a torture. 3. Of, or with allusion to, climate, atmospheric conditions, the air, etc. †a. Inducing a flow of rheum. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > common cold or catarrh > causing rheumatic?a1425 catch-cold1792 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 25 (MED) Þerfor in þe first be þer chosen aer clene..& clere noȝt humid ne reumatic. 1565 Abp. M. Parker Let. 29 Dec. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 250 If any offence be taken for my not oft attending, and to come over the reumatike Tempsis. 1589 G. Peele Eglogue Gratulatorie xxxviii And evening air is rheumatick and cold. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. C2 The Sun..hath..refind that thicke tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throwes abroad. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. i. 44 In your doublet and hose, this raw-rumaticke day? View more context for this quotation a1680 N. Wanley Hist. Man (1704) cxxvi. 517 A black Gorsy Soil, a raw Rheumatick Air, or some craggy and squalid, wild disconsolate Hills. b. Of weather, or a place or its climate: tending to induce or exacerbate rheumatism. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis > causing rheumatic1764 rheumatizing1852 1764 E. Carter Let. 18 May in Lett. Mrs. Montagu (1817) I. lx. 215 This treacherous sunshine..conceals the severity of the north-east wind,..for this is sad rheumatic weather; I am seized by the neck and one arm. 1833 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 39 10 At Bermuda rheumatism does not bear the proportion of a sixteenth... Yet the popular and medico-popular opinion..is, that Bermuda is a rheumatic climate. 1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 23 Church towers are..warmer and less rheumatic than hollow trees. 1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 14 India is a very rheumatic country. 1949 D. Thomas Let. 17 Feb. (1987) 700 I wish I could speedily return to Scotland: here it is low and sodden, moley and owly, rheumatic, cloddish. 2001 J. B. Gordon in S. I. Salamensky Talk, Talk, Talk iii. xv. 207 The foggy, rheumatic climate of Bleak House. 4. Of a disease. †a. Caused by the abnormal production or flow of rheum; characterized by the discharge of rheum; catarrhal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge rheumatic?c1425 mucous1754 blennorrhagic1879 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis rheumatic?c1425 rheumatical1684 rheumatismatic1695 rheumatismal1820 rheumatoid1845 rheumatoidal1848 screwmatic1893 palindromic1941 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 569 (MED) Suche cauteries helpe..to ham þat haue þe ptisik, and to alle reumatik passiouns. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 82 Thys woode hath a synguler propertie..agaynste many other moyste and rumiticke sicknesses. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 105 The Moone (the gouernesse of floods)..washes all the aire; That Rheumaticke diseases doe abound. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 136/1 Rewmatick, or the Slavering Madness. 1694 J. Peachi Some Observ. Calumba Wood 5 A young Gentlewoman extreamly afflicted with Rheumatick Distempers, and by going often into Hot-houses to sweat, had brought her self into Hectick Feavers. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 95 This Draught usually gives great Relief in a (let me call it) Guttural Rheumatic and Evening Cough, caused by catching Cold. b. Of the nature of or resembling rheumatism. In later use also: (Medicine) designating any of a diverse group of diseases, often of inflammatory or autoimmune origin, which affect the joints, muscles, or, more generally, connective tissue, and which form the subject matter of rheumatology.See also rheumatic fever n. ΚΠ 1715 P. Kennedy Ess. External Remedies iii. 56 Sweating in the Salt Pans, is of wonderful Use in Rheumatic, Arthritic, Paralytic, or Nervous Distempers. 1783 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 1 152 A kind of arthritis vaga (or what is vulgarly called rheumatic gout). 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 518/2 We are acquainted with no disease which more frequently produces deformity of the hand and fingers than chronic rheumatism (chronic rheumatic arthritis). 1861 G. Hartwig Pract. Treat. Sea-bathing & Sea-air (ed. 2) ii. 15 Rheumatic and arthritical complaints are not unfrequently followed by permanent weakness or lameness of the affected part. 1890 H. Lane Differentiation in Rheumatic Dis. 13 In rheumatic arthritis we have found a monarthritis more the exception than the rule. 1933 Lancet 16 Dec. 1408/1 It has hot acid and alkaline waters, and volcanic muds, and reports show that their value in rheumatic diseases of the soft tissues can be attributed to their influence on the circulation. 1991 Here's Health Jan. 29/2 The thermal water..benefits rheumatic and arthritic disorders. 2007 Independent 19 Feb. (Extra section) 4/1 Bee venom stimulates the release of cortisone (cortisol) and is said to be effective in treating rheumatic diseases. 5. Of, relating to, or characteristic of rheumatism or (Medicine) rheumatic diseases (see sense A. 4b). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > rheumatism or arthritis > relating to rheumatic1699 1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick Introd. sig. A3^v They were generally taken with Coughs, Drowsiness, moveable Ioint-pains, commonly termed Rheumatic Pains. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 19 Sept. (1948) I. 363 She is lame in one of her legs with a rheumatick pain. 1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 290 Trefoil..is of singular service in all arthritic and rheumatic Pains. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. viii. 88 A slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders. View more context for this quotation a1836 R. Williams Medicine in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 681 In scarlatina the joints are often the seat of the severest rheumatic inflammation. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Mar. 510/2 Rheumatic pyrexia. 1905 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1904 37 113 Ranunculus rivularis. (Waoriki.) The expressed juice, which has blistering qualities, is used for rheumatic..joint-diseases. 1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty iv. 82 Nance gave a rheumatic prance and a galumph like a cloth horse in a pantomime. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 55/2 (advt.) These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheumatic pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. 1976 Lancet 27 Nov. 1202/2 The hospital's closure was strenuously opposed by the consultant rheumatologists to whom it was obvious that to halve the number of beds in the regional centre would gravely impair the rheumatic service. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons at D. W. Winnicott For ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic. 1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) iii. 55 Pritchard had used aconite, a drug extracted from monkshood or wolfbane root, and used to be applied externally to treat rheumatic complaints. B. n. 1. A person suffering from rheumatism or a rheumatic disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis > person rheumatic1738 1738 J. Burton Treat. Non-naturals ii. 123 The Blood of the Rheumatics was not so much inflam'd this Year as in the former. 1767 D. Schulz von Schulzenheim Acct. Inoculation Small-pox 20 Rheumatics full of Blood and who have glutinous Serum, get generally a favourable Kind, and few Physicians hesitate upon inoculating them. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxvi. 83 Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is a rheumatic. 1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 439/2 Rheumatics, who so largely preponderate among the invalided visitors. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 12 560 It is a peculiarity of this disease [sc. rheumatoid arthritis] that patients are not affected by changes from dry to humid climate, as are rheumatics. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. vii. 117 Charles Fox Parham was a sickly rheumatic who ran a small Bible school in Topeka, Kansas, in the closing years of the nineteenth century. 2008 Jrnl. Chem. Health & Safety 15 5/2 Physicians monitored the amount of salicyluric acid in the urine of rheumatics. 2. a. colloquial. In plural. Rheumatic pains; rheumatism. Frequently with the. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis arthritis1543 rheum1667 rheumatism1670 rheumatiz1760 rheumatica1796 arthrosia1822 screwmatic1832 rheumatoid arthritis1859 arthritism1868 polyarthritis1868 osteoarthritis1878 panarthritis1890 screw1897 Still's disease1905 rheumatic1918 osteoarthrosis1932 RA1957 a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 791 Whan fevers burn, or agues freeze us, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeeze us. 1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) IV. 166 John's hands were so contracted by the rheumatics that had settled in them. 1836 London Med. Gaz. 22 Oct. 117/2 ‘I think,’ to use the language of the lower classes, ‘I have got the rheumatics,’ means simply that the patient has pains in his limbs. 1852 S. Thomson Dict. Domest. Med. 439/2 The acute form of rheumatism..is popularly named the ‘rheumatics’, whilst the chronic form..is known..in vulgar parlance as ‘the rheumatiz’. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 57 The ‘rheumatics’ so often complained of by elderly patients. 1944 ‘F. O'Connor’ Crab Apple Jelly 91 The sergeant-major was at his heels,..cracking jokes about his rheumatics till she had him lepping. 1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 42 With his rheumatics he wasn't able to bend down to pick the fiver up. 2000 K. Cushman Matilda Bone 157 She stopped to rub her shoulders. ‘The rheumatics,’ she explained... ‘I being attendant on a bonesetter know something of the rheumatics.’ b. In singular with the. Rheumatism. Chiefly English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis arthritis1543 rheum1667 rheumatism1670 rheumatiz1760 rheumatica1796 arthrosia1822 screwmatic1832 rheumatoid arthritis1859 arthritism1868 polyarthritis1868 osteoarthritis1878 panarthritis1890 screw1897 Still's disease1905 rheumatic1918 osteoarthrosis1932 RA1957 1918 V. Woolf Diary 16 July (1977) I. 169 He is a ridiculous figure precisely like the false Mandrill, especially now that he's bent with the rheumatic, & can only creep and crawl. 1963 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 53 But I've got the rheumatic now in here and in here and the knee. Derivatives rheuˈmatic-ˌlike adj. (of a symptom) resembling that of rheumatism or rheumatic disease. ΚΠ 1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 461 This idea is countenanced by the frequent change of place of rheumatic-like gouty inflammations. 1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 11 14 Chills or rigors, and rheumatic like aches, in the joints, or wandering about the cavities of the body, also exist. 1903 Med. Rec. 64 612/2 Rheumatic-like swellings of joints were absent in this case. 1998 J. A. Delle Archaeol. Social Space vi. 163 The disease [sc. yaws] is characterized by rheumatic-like bone aches, fungous oozing pustules, and in advanced stages, by destruction of the facial bones. † rheumaticness n. Obsolete rare rheumatic tendency or predisposition. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Rheumatickness, subjectness to be afflicted with a Rheumatism. 1892 J. H. Clark Rheumatism & Sciatica 56 There is a condition which might almost be called ‘rheumaticness’, rather than any definite form of rheumatism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.a1398
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