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▪ I. neurotic, n.|njʊˈrɒtɪk|
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1. Med. A drug having a marked effect, esp. of a bracing kind, upon the nervous system.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 335 It's cured..by alexipharmicks, roborants, neuroticks, and fitt diet. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 586/1 It is a famous Cephalick, Neurotick, Stomachick, Cardiack and Uterine. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 356 [Infuse] Rose-Water [upon it] for an Hypnotick or a Neurotick. 1869J. Harley (title) The old Vegetable Neurotics.., their physiological action and therapeutical use.
2. Path. ‘A disease having its seat in the nerves’ (Webster 1847).
3. A neurotic person.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 475 They may be made into ‘blue-stockings’ or neurotics, or both together. 1897Ibid. II. 851 The offspring of drunkards or neurotics.
▪ II. neurotic, a.|njʊˈrɒtɪk|
[ad. Gr. type *νευρωτικ-ός, f. νεῦρον nerve: see -otic.]
1. Acting upon, or stimulating, the nerves.
1775in Ash, and in later Dicts.
2. Of the nature of, marked or characterized by, neurosis or nervous disorder.
1873F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 531 Angina pectoris is supposed to be a neurotic affection. 1887Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Jan. 205/1 Those neurotic ailments which have hitherto taxed the skill and care of physicians.
3. a. Of persons: Affected by, suffering from, neurosis; having disordered nerves.
1887Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 162 The neurotic woman is sensitive, zealous, managing. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 888 The cause of morphinism in persons not more neurotic than the rest of us. 1899Ibid. VIII. 180 It is probable that in the neurotic the nervous system is more likely to be disturbed by general diseases.
b. Characteristic of a neurosis or a neurotic. Also fig.
1918A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Totem & Taboo iii. 143 Neurotics live in a special world in which..only the ‘neurotic standard of currency’ counts. 1948L. MacNeice Holes in Sky 31 The taut-necked donkey's neurotic⁓asthmatic-erotic lamenting. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 3/1 The Nixon Administration has blundered again—having become enslaved by its neurotic emphasis on seeking re-election in '72 at all costs. 1975M. Babson There must be Some Mistake xix. 161 My husband simply disappears..and I was foolish enough to get upset about it. Neurotic of me, wasn't it? |