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† mordiˈsheen Anglo-Indian. Obs.
Forms: 6 mordexijn, 7 mordesin, mordechan, mordechine, mordisheen, 8 mordechin, mordyxim, 8–9 morxi, 9 mordexyn. See also mort-de-chien.
[a. Pg. mordexim, a. Mahrattī moḍachī cholera.]
The cholera.
1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten i. xxxiv. 67 There raigneth a sicknesse called Mordexijn, which..weakeneth a man, and maketh him cast out all that he hath in his bodie. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 51 Another infection called Mordesin,..begins with vomiting, and pains in the head, and is infectious. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 108 The Portuguese call the four sorts of Cholicks that people are troubled with in the Indies..Mordechin. 1696J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 350 The Mordechine is another Disease of which some die, which is a violent Vomiting and Looseness. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 114 They apply Cauteries most unmercifully in a Mordisheen, called so by the Portugals, being a Vomiting with a Loosness. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Morxi, an Indian name of a pestilential distemper, very common in Malabar. 1757J. H. Grose Voy. E. Indies 52 The mordechin..is a fit of violent vomiting and purging, that often proves fatal. 1787Proc. Madras Med. Board 29 Nov., in Good's Study Med. (1834) I. 219 An epidemic..under the appearance of dysentery, cholera morbus or mordyxim. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Mordexyn. |