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单词 bulimia
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bulimian.

Brit. /b(j)ᵿˈlɪmɪə/, /b(j)ᵿˈliːmɪə/, U.S. /bʊˈlimiə/
Forms:

α. Middle English bolisme, Middle English bolysme.

β. 1600s–1700s bulimus, 1600s–1800s boulimos, 1700s–1800s boulimus.

γ. 1600s– boulimia, 1600s– bulimia.

δ. 1600s boulime.

ε. 1600s boulimee, 1600s boulimie, 1600s– boulimy, 1600s– bulimy, 1700s boulomee, 1800s bullimy.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: French bolisme; Latin bolismus; Latin būlīmus; Latin bulimia; Greek βούλιμος; Greek βουλιμία.
Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < (i) Middle French bolisme, bolysme (1372; now boulimie : see below) and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin bolismus, alteration of classical Latin būlīmus (see below); partly (in β. forms) < (iii) classical Latin būlīmus and its etymon (iv) Hellenistic Greek βούλιμος ravenous hunger (already in ancient Greek in sense ‘ravenously hungry’: see below); and partly (in γ. forms) < (v) post-classical Latin bulimia (1537 or earlier) and its etymon ancient Greek (vi) βουλιμία ravenous hunger < βούλιμος ( < βου- , intensive prefix (properly combining form of βοῦς ox: see Bucephalus n.) + λιμός hunger: see limotherapy n.) + -ία -ia suffix1. With ε. forms compare Middle French, French boulimie (1594) and also -y suffix3.In N.E.D. (1888) the headword is bulimy, with the pronunciation (biū·limi) /ˈbjuːlɪmɪ/.
1. Medicine. Originally: abnormally great appetite for or consumption of food, sometimes accompanied by other symptoms such as vomiting or fainting; (in early use also) †pica (obsolete); an instance of this. In later use (more fully bulimia nervosa): spec. an eating disorder characterized by regular, usually secretive bouts of binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting, purging, strict dieting, or extreme exercise, in association with persistent over-concern with body weight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger
bulimiaa1398
dog's hunger1592
dogged hunger1599
dog hunger1605
canine appetite1609
dog appetite1615
doggish appetitea1620
ox-hunger1623
polyphagia1693
adephagia1753
polyphagy1802
hyperphagia1941
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders
anorexia nervosa1873
bulimarexia1976
bulimia nervosa1979
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xlv. 394 Bolismus is inmoderat and vnmesurable, as it were an houndis appetite.]
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxvii. 1169 Houndes haueþ contynual bolysme..and beþ somtyme so punysched wiþ hunger þat þay waxeþ rabbissh and woode.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 342 One-while the Boulime, then the Anorexie..rage with monstrous ryot.
1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold 734 He now thinks the chief cause of the Bulimia to consist in certain steams, that do peculiarly affect the stomack, which they gnaw and distend.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 301 A strange Boulimy..seized one Brian Careswell..who would knaw and eat both Linnen and Woollen.
1703 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd (ed. 2) 54 In a Bulimus the Causes are somewhat meeker, attended by a dullness or want of Spirits.
1767 Family Guide Health 117 When the Hunger is great, but not lasting, and attended with Faintings and a Failure of Breath, it is called a Boulimus, and is very dangerous.
1780 W. Beckford Biogr. Mem. Painters 19 Hemmeline, who had long been troubled with a boulomee, or voracious appetite.
1813 J. Blackall Observ. Nature & Cure Dropsies 233 That author..wholly omits to notice the boulimy or inordinate appetite, which forms so striking a feature of the diabetes mellitus.
1826 Lancet 27 May 267/1 The appetite may..be simply in excess, a state that has been called cynorexia, bulimia, &c.
1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 435/1 There are, however, a number of abnormal conditions which are classed under the general heading of bulimia, where an excessive appetite is present.
1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 39 119 Abnormalities of the need for food [are classified] as ‘anorexia’, ‘bulimia’, and ‘parorexia’.
1978 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 June 2688/1 A possible disorder (bulimia), which included self-induced vomiting as a feature, has been proposed by the American Psychiatric Association's Task Force on Nomenclature and Statistics.
1979 G. Russell in Psychol. Med. 9 429 (title) Bulimia nervosa: an ominous variant of anorexia nervosa.
1985 Woman's Own 22 June 10/2 She developed another slimmer's disease—bulimia nervosa. ‘For four months I stuffed myself with food then purged myself with laxatives.’
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 May iia. 20/2 She struggled for many years with bulimia.
2. figurative. The tendency towards (purging and) excess in other contexts; (also) an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [noun] > craving
thirstc1175
hungriness1530
dropsy1548
hunger1548
hungriousness1549
appetite1605
hungering1638
bulimia1639
craving1692
letch1796
crave1830
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre 35 The grave that every where hath a good stomack, hath here a boulimia or greedy worm; for it will devoure the flesh of a corpse in 48 houres.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 174 We may further adde, the insatiable appetite, or Bulimia, of enlarging Dominion; with the incurable Wounds thereby many times received from the enemy; And the Wens, of ununited conquests, which are many times a burthen.
1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 166 in 2 Serm. The Boulimee of all-consuming Time.
1696 Monthly Mercury 7 83 The French King has had..such a Bulimy after Money.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iv. 44 There is enough left to glut..any that has not..an Ecclesiastick Boulimy.
1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 8 We waited, till the morbid strength of our boulimia for their physick had exhausted the well-stored dispensary of their empiricism.
1833 T. Hood Wks. (1862) II. 440 Novel reading is to some constitutions a sort of literary bullimy, or unnatural appetite.
1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 172 First cousins of the moth, who labour under a bulimy for black-letter.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 144 One incessant bulimia for idolatry.
1898 W. T. Helmuth in Doctor's Window 153 Then came bulimia for becoming bonnets—Hereditary epidemic of today.
1920 Trans. Southern Surg. Assoc. 32 p. lv The younger generation of gynecologists..becoming infected with the bulimia of the general surgeons, also include the entire body as their province.
2004 V. W. Chow in Leaving Springfield 119 The ideal worker/consumer cannot balance the two sides of the scales; what results is a kind of bulimia—a binge and purge mentality in which so-called leisure time is spent in manic consumption.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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