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dyscrasy, n.|ˈdɪskrəsɪ|
Also 5–8 discrasie, -cie, -cy.
[a. OF. dyscrasie (13–14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. dyscrāsia: see above.]
A bad or disordered condition of the body (originally supposed to arise from disproportionate mixture of the ‘humours’: cf. distemper, -ance, -ature); morbid diathesis; distemper. (Now more usually in Latin form dyscrasia, q.v.)
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 57 Þe drie discrasie þou schalt knowe bi þe smalnes of þe lyme. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe ii. x. (1539) 27 b, Nutmigges, with their swete odour comforte..also the brayn in colde discrasies. Ibid. iv. 75 b, I will somewhat wryte of two dyscrasyes of the body. 1650Venner Via Recta (1650) 9 A dyscrasie, a putting of the body and spirit out of frame. 1646J. Whitaker Uzziah 22 Physicians observe in crasie bodies, that a sudden eucrasie is the forerunner of some discrasie. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 154 A discrasy of the juices. 1822–34Good Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 364 Dependent upon a dyscrasy or intemperament of the blood.
b. transf. and fig. Disorder.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. Ep. Ded. 2 The perpetuall Meditation of my private Troubles, and the publike Dyscrasy. 1647Cudworth Serm. 1 Cor. xv. 57 (1676) 81 Sin is but a disease and Dyscrasie in the soul. 1817J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 40 Giving..nutriment to social dyscrasy.
Hence † dyscrasy v. Obs. rare. = dyscrase.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 85 If þei ben discrasid [v.r. discrasyede], remeue þilke discrasie wiþ þat, þat is contrarie. 1670Maynwaring Vita Sana iii. 40 A discrasyed body. |