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单词 sweating-sickness
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sweating-sicknessn.

Etymology: Compare early Dutch sweetende sieckte (Kilian), after English; also modern Dutch zweetziekte, German schweisssucht, Swedish svettsjuka.
A febrile disease characterized by profuse sweating, of which highly and rapidly fatal epidemics occurred in England in the 15th and 16th centuries. Now chiefly Historical in reference to these.
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c1503 R. Arnold Chron. sig. Avij This yere [sc. 1485] was a grete deth and hasty callyd th swetynge syknes.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxvii. sig. L.iii Whan the Plages of the Pestylence, or the swetynge syckenes is in a towne,..the people doth fle.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxxiij This yeare [sc. 1529] also was Germany sore afflicted with a newe kynde of disease called the Sweathing sicknes.
1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 122 The first time of this sweating sickness was in the year 1485.
1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 36 The sweating sickness..began at first in 1483, in Henry the Seventh's army, upon his landing at Milford haven.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 423 The sweating sickness was a rapid fever, carrying people off in 24 hours.
figurative or allusively.1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D Let mee..tell a little of the sweating sicknesse, that made me in a cold sweate take my heeles and runne out of England.1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat iv. ii. sig. I2v [We will] ease you Of your golden burthen, the heavie carriage may Bring you to a sweating sicknesse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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