| 单词 | st vitus's fit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSt. Vitus's fit d. St. Vitus's dance: = chorea n.; also figurative and in extended use. Also St. Vitus's fit.Also St. John's, St. Guy's dance, terms applied to the dancing-mania of the middle ages. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea tirla1585 St. Vitus's dance1621 chorea1686 St. Vitus's jig1702 leaping ague1792 St. Vitus's fit1836 dancing-mania1877 Huntington's disease1889 Sydenham's chorea1892 dancing-plague- 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. iv. 15 Chorus sancti Viti, or Saint Vitus dance..they that are taken with it, can doe nothing but dance till they be dead. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Chorea Santi Viti St. Vitus's Dance. 1746 J. Andree (title) Cases of the epilepsy, hysteric fits, and St. Vitus's dance, with the process of cure. 1804 R. Southey in H. D. Traill Coleridge (1884) 106 His [Coleridge's] mind is in a perpetual St. Vitus's dance—eternal activity without action. 1836 T. Hood Comic Ann. 89 Ring Tom of Lincoln till he splits, And dance into St. Vitus' fits. 1840 A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. II. 205 In St. John's dance, as well as in that of St. Vitus..a tympanic state of the abdomen was a frequent symptom. 1883 19th Cent. Sept. 537 He calls this policy ‘the policy of salutary agitation’, which I irreverently translate: ‘the St. Vitus' dance policy’. 1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon St. Vitus' dance of the voice, a name for Stammering. < as lemmas |
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