spasmn.

Brit.

/ˈspaz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈspæzəm/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s spasme.

Etymology: < Old French spasme (French spasme , = Provençal espasme , Spanish espasmo , Portuguese espasmo , Italian spasmo , spasimo ), or < Latin spasmus (masculine), spasma neuter, < Greek σπασμός , σπάσμα , < σπᾶν to draw, tug, etc. Compare spasma n. and spasmus n.

1. Sudden and violent muscular contraction of a convulsive or painful character.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp

cramp1374

emprosthotonosa1398

spasmc1400

spasmusc1400

crickc1424

crumpa1500

misspringinga1500

spasma?1541

convulsion1585

catch1830

kink1848

tonus1891

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 160 Þanne it is greet drede of þe spasme & aftirward of deeþ,..þe akynge arisiþ vp to þe brayn, & þanne comeþ spasme.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 41 It cureth those who have their necks drawne backward to their shoulders with the Spasme.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 481 All maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture.

1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 140 He had very oft (almost every minute) a strange kind of spasme in the muscles of his breast.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The spasm is a much less dangerous complaint than the convulsion.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 49 The first species of spasm in the stomach originates from extreme debility..and atony in that organ.

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 382 Spasm of the gall-ducts is..something more than a mere hypothesis.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 475 Spasm of the larynx and trachea... Spasm is chiefly known as causing contraction of the rima glottidis.

2. With a and plural. An instance of this; a convulsive twitch or throe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > tic or twitch

spasm1477

vellication1665

subsultus1696

tic douloureux1800

tic1822

jerking1827

live blood1834

nervous tic1858

jactitation1861

habit spasm1888

myokymia1901

fasciculation1938

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 102 She fyll to the erthe al in a spasme & a swounne.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 90^v/1 For the prohibition of a spasme ye shal rubbe often the nuke or marye of the backebone.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Spasmes, be painefull crampes or pluckings of the sinewes and cords of the Muscles.

1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 79 Such persons as have their bodies drawn together by some Spasme or Convulsion.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Spasms, cramps or convulsions of the nerves.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 112 Such Parts likewise draw the Fibres into Spasms, and keep them too tense.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §21. 153 Water..is found when not cold to be a great resolver of spasms.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 178 He came again to the hospital complaining of spasms in his left arm.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iii. 15 His face was curiously twisted as by a spasm.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. iv. 31 The swollen form of the Emperor heaved with the spasm of a last struggle.

3. figurative. Any sudden or convulsive movement of a violent character; a convulsion:

a. Of natural agencies or forces.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > violent agitation > specifically of natural agencies

spasm1817

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ix. v. 195 As with an earthquake's spasm.

1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 57 Red republicanism, in the father, is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.

1909 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 156 Here is a problem more terrible than any spasm of nature.

b. Of feeling, emotion, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > [noun] > throb of emotion

heartbeat1827

throb1836

spasm1837

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. ii. 290 In utmost preternatural spasm of madness.

1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 68 So in human action, against the spasm of energy, we offset the continuity of drill.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. x. 200 A mere spasm of suspicious jealousy.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. x. 162 He caused her a spasm of anguish.

c. Of political excitement, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > a convulsion of political excitement

spasm1858

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. ix. 118 War in Italy, universal spasm of wrestle there.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxvi. 437 The fears which the final spasm of rebellion had again provoked.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxvi. 330 As for the succeeding Emperors, the spasm of their brief elevation was marked by universal horrors.

Compounds

Special combinations.

spasm band n. U.S. (now Historical) a group, frequently of children, playing jazz on home-made musical instruments.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of

waits1298

consort1587

wait player1610

wind music1650

the fiddles1676

military band1775

German band1819

street band1826

brass band1834

promenade band1836

horn-band1849

pipe band1867

wind-band1876

Hungarian band1882

jazz band1916

jazz orchestra1916

big band1919

road band1922

Schrammel quartet1924

showband1926

spasm band1926

dance-band1927

marching band1930

name band1932

ork1933

silver band1933

sweet band1935

Schrammel orchestra1938

pop band1942

jug band1946

steel band1949

rehearsal band1957

skiffle band1957

ghost band1962

support band1969

support group1969

scratch band1982

1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xiii. 267 When the last fearful note died, he turned to the leader. ‘Stale Bread,’ said he [sc. a judge], ‘you may be a band, but you're a spasm band. Discharged.’ The name stuck and the spasm band went on playing.

1943 I. Lang Background of Blues 4 Then there were the spasm bands... The saloons and sidewalks where spasm music and street singers found their most generous audiences were those of the French Quarter and particularly those in Storyville.

1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts x. 297 In the early decades of the century the ‘spasm bands’ played a kind of home-made jazz on improvised instruments.

spasm music n. U.S. (now Historical) music played by spasm bands.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types

country music1585

water musicc1660

concert music1776

eye music1812

ballet music1813

night music1832

absolute music1856

Tafelmusik1880

Ars Antiqua1886

Ars Nova1886

early music1886

tone poetry1890

mood music1922

Gebrauchsmusik1930

shake music1935

modernistic1938

industrial1942

spasm music1943

musica reservata1944

protest music1949

night music1950

palm court music1958

title music1960

bottleneck guitar1961

rinky-tink1962

Schrammel-musik1967

sweet music1967

chutney1968

roots music1969

electronica1980

multiphonics1983

chutney soca1987

chiptune1992

1943Spasm music [see spasm band n.].

spasm war n. a war in which the combatants use their complete thermo-nuclear capabilities.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > atomic or nuclear warfare

push-button war1945

spasm war1965

1965 H. Kahn On Escalation i. 14 But we need alternatives other than all~out spasm war or peace at any price.

1967 M. H. Halperin Contemp. Mil. Strategy (1968) ii. 15 The assumption that a general nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union would be an all-out, or ‘spasm’ war.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spasm
释义	spasmn. Brit. /ˈspaz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈspæzəm/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s spasme. Etymology: < Old French spasme (French spasme , = Provençal espasme , Spanish espasmo , Portuguese espasmo , Italian spasmo , spasimo ), or < Latin spasmus (masculine), spasma neuter, < Greek σπασμός , σπάσμα , < σπᾶν to draw, tug, etc. Compare spasma n. and spasmus n. 1. Sudden and violent muscular contraction of a convulsive or painful character. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp cramp1374 emprosthotonosa1398 spasmc1400 spasmusc1400 crickc1424 crumpa1500 misspringinga1500 spasma?1541 convulsion1585 catch1830 kink1848 tonus1891 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 160 Þanne it is greet drede of þe spasme & aftirward of deeþ,..þe akynge arisiþ vp to þe brayn, & þanne comeþ spasme. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 41 It cureth those who have their necks drawne backward to their shoulders with the Spasme. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 481 All maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 140 He had very oft (almost every minute) a strange kind of spasme in the muscles of his breast. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The spasm is a much less dangerous complaint than the convulsion. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 49 The first species of spasm in the stomach originates from extreme debility..and atony in that organ. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 382 Spasm of the gall-ducts is..something more than a mere hypothesis. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 475 Spasm of the larynx and trachea... Spasm is chiefly known as causing contraction of the rima glottidis. 2. With a and plural. An instance of this; a convulsive twitch or throe. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > tic or twitch spasm1477 vellication1665 subsultus1696 tic douloureux1800 tic1822 jerking1827 live blood1834 nervous tic1858 jactitation1861 habit spasm1888 myokymia1901 fasciculation1938 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 102 She fyll to the erthe al in a spasme & a swounne. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 90^v/1 For the prohibition of a spasme ye shal rubbe often the nuke or marye of the backebone. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Spasmes, be painefull crampes or pluckings of the sinewes and cords of the Muscles. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 79 Such persons as have their bodies drawn together by some Spasme or Convulsion. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Spasms, cramps or convulsions of the nerves. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 112 Such Parts likewise draw the Fibres into Spasms, and keep them too tense. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §21. 153 Water..is found when not cold to be a great resolver of spasms. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 178 He came again to the hospital complaining of spasms in his left arm. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iii. 15 His face was curiously twisted as by a spasm. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. iv. 31 The swollen form of the Emperor heaved with the spasm of a last struggle. 3. figurative. Any sudden or convulsive movement of a violent character; a convulsion: a. Of natural agencies or forces. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > violent agitation > specifically of natural agencies spasm1817 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ix. v. 195 As with an earthquake's spasm. 1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 57 Red republicanism, in the father, is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age. 1909 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 156 Here is a problem more terrible than any spasm of nature. b. Of feeling, emotion, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > [noun] > throb of emotion heartbeat1827 throb1836 spasm1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. ii. 290 In utmost preternatural spasm of madness. 1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 68 So in human action, against the spasm of energy, we offset the continuity of drill. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. x. 200 A mere spasm of suspicious jealousy. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. x. 162 He caused her a spasm of anguish. c. Of political excitement, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > a convulsion of political excitement spasm1858 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. ix. 118 War in Italy, universal spasm of wrestle there. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxvi. 437 The fears which the final spasm of rebellion had again provoked. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxvi. 330 As for the succeeding Emperors, the spasm of their brief elevation was marked by universal horrors. Compounds Special combinations. spasm band n. U.S. (now Historical) a group, frequently of children, playing jazz on home-made musical instruments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xiii. 267 When the last fearful note died, he turned to the leader. ‘Stale Bread,’ said he [sc. a judge], ‘you may be a band, but you're a spasm band. Discharged.’ The name stuck and the spasm band went on playing. 1943 I. Lang Background of Blues 4 Then there were the spasm bands... The saloons and sidewalks where spasm music and street singers found their most generous audiences were those of the French Quarter and particularly those in Storyville. 1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts x. 297 In the early decades of the century the ‘spasm bands’ played a kind of home-made jazz on improvised instruments. spasm music n. U.S. (now Historical) music played by spasm bands. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types country music1585 water musicc1660 concert music1776 eye music1812 ballet music1813 night music1832 absolute music1856 Tafelmusik1880 Ars Antiqua1886 Ars Nova1886 early music1886 tone poetry1890 mood music1922 Gebrauchsmusik1930 shake music1935 modernistic1938 industrial1942 spasm music1943 musica reservata1944 protest music1949 night music1950 palm court music1958 title music1960 bottleneck guitar1961 rinky-tink1962 Schrammel-musik1967 sweet music1967 chutney1968 roots music1969 electronica1980 multiphonics1983 chutney soca1987 chiptune1992 1943Spasm music [see spasm band n.]. spasm war n. a war in which the combatants use their complete thermo-nuclear capabilities. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > atomic or nuclear warfare push-button war1945 spasm war1965 1965 H. Kahn On Escalation i. 14 But we need alternatives other than all~out spasm war or peace at any price. 1967 M. H. Halperin Contemp. Mil. Strategy (1968) ii. 15 The assumption that a general nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union would be an all-out, or ‘spasm’ war. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spasmv. Brit. /ˈspaz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈspæzəm/ Etymology: < spasm n. 1. intransitive. To twitch convulsively; to suffer a spasm. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > make sudden movement [verb (intransitive)] > make spasmodic movement vellicate1670 spasm1900 1900 W. D. Howells Lit. Friends viii. 269 Of a person who had a nervous twitching of the face..he [sc. Henry James Sr.] said ‘He spasmed to the fellow across the room and introduced him.’ 1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs xii. 142 Frank's gun fell from his spasming fingers. 1970 J. Hansen Fadeout ix. 74 The boy's fine head did its slow, neck-straining roll while the unexpectedly deep voice spasmed and his mouth labored. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xv. 304 The prostrate pig..squealed, its short legs spasmed. 2. transitive. To cause to move convulsively. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > cause to move suddenly [verb (transitive)] > cause to move spasmodically spasm1962 1962 J. D. MacDonald Key to Suite (1968) ix. 152 He spasmed his body inward, dropped the few remaining inches and landed on the railing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400v.1900
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spasmn.

Compounds

spasmv.