An attack or onset of disease or other misfortune. In Old English perhaps: spec. †a swelling (obsolete). Now: spec. (Scottish) a sudden cold or fever.
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of (37) onfalleOE An attack or onset of disease or other misfortune. In Old English perhaps: spec. †a swelling (obsolete). Now: spec. (Scottish) a sudden cold or fever. cothec1000 Sickness, disease, pestilence; an attack of illness, as swooning, the pains of childbirth, etc. bitc1175 fig. The ‘bite’ or ‘sting’ of death, disease, etc.; hence, to be one's bit: to be inimical or destructive to one. Obs. accessc1300 An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the… attacha1400 An attack; spec. an attack of disease. shota1400 A sudden sharp pain; also dialect ‘a sudden attack of illness or disease’. rare. swalma1400 (An attack of) faintness or sickness. (Cf. sweam, n.) storm1540 Pathology. A paroxysm, violent access (of pain or disease). Now chiefly with qualifying word, as asthmatic storm, rheumatic storm. excess?1541 = access, n. 1. accession1565 Medicine. = access, n. 1. Now rare. qualm1565 A sudden feeling or fit of faintness or sickness. In later use: esp. a sudden feeling of nausea. oncome1570 Something harmful that comes upon a person, esp. as a calamity or affliction; spec. an attack of disease or an illness. Now rare (chiefly Scottish). grasha1610 A bout or attack. attachment1625 An instance of being affected by a disease, an attack. Cf. attach, v. 3a. Obsolete. ingruence1635 A coming on, onset, attack. turn1653 Originally: †a fit of anger, terror, etc. (obsolete). Subsequently: an attack of illness; (now) a brief feeling of illness, as in a funny turn… attack1665 An instance of being afflicted, esp. suddenly, by a disease or other disorder; a short bout or episode of an incapacitating physical or mental… fit1667 A paroxysm, or one of the recurrent attacks, of a periodic or constitutional ailment. In later use also with wider sense: A sudden and somewhat… surprise1670 An attack of illness; a sudden access of emotion. Obsolete. drow1727 A fit of illness; a fainting fit; a qualm. tossa1732 A bout, an encounter. Scottish. Obsolete. irruption1732 Confused with eruption, n. sick1808 A disease or illness (obsolete); a fit of sickness; a sickening. rare except in to give (a person) the sick, to nauseate, to disgust. tout1808 A fit or slight bout of illness. whither1808 A violent or impetuous movement, a rush; an attack, onset; a smart blow or stroke; a blast or gust of wind; a quivering movement, a tremble; a… spell1856 U.S. A period of being indisposed, out of sorts, or irritable; an attack or fit of illness or nervous excitement. go1867 colloquial. British. An attack or bout of a particular illness or condition. whip1891 figurative. An attack, access (of illness or calamity). Scottish. (Cf. whiff, n.1 1c.) Subcategories:— each successive (1) — space between (2) — slight attack (6) |
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