A sudden attack of illness or pain, esp. a seizure or stroke; cf. take, n.1 5. Also: enchantment; malignant influence; possession. Cf. take, v. 4. Obs…

An attack of illness, disease, or some other affliction; a seizure of the body or mind. Esp. in to take a conceit: to become affected by illness or…

? A paralytic stroke, paralysis. Obsolete.

Originally: a sudden attack of disease, esp. one resulting loss of consciousness, sensation, or movement. In later use spec.: a condition…

A sudden seizure of any malady attended with loss of consciousness and power of motion, or with convulsions, as fainting, hysteria, apoplexy…

Medicine. A seizure; a sudden or acute attack, esp. of mental illness. Also with distinguishing scientific Latin word, as raptus melancholicus, raptu…

Characterized by paralysis; = paralytic, adj. 1b. Chiefly in parlatic stroke. Also figurative.

A sudden attack of illness, esp. a fit of apoplexy or epilepsy. Also, a sudden visitation (of calamity).

Medicine. A paralytic seizure or stroke. Chiefly Scottish and U.S. dialect.

Medicine. A stroke, seizure, or fit. Also in some modern Latin phrases.

U.S. slang. A fit or spasm, esp. as simulated by a drug addict; frequently in to throw a wingding. Also in weakened sense, a furious outburst.

(a) (see quot. 1933 at sense 1); (b) a pretended fit; a wild outburst.

A stroke (stroke, n.1 6a) that is limited in extent or duration; (in later use) spec. = transient ischaemic attack n. at transient, adj. n.compounds.