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apoplectic, a. and n.|æpəʊˈplɛktɪk|
[ad. Fr. apoplectique (16th c. in Littré) or L. apoplēcticus, a. Gr. ἀποπληκτικός apoplectic, f. ἀπόπληκτος disabled by a stroke, f. ἀποπλήσσειν: see apoplexy and -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or causing, apoplexy.
1611Beaum. & Fl. Triumph. Hon. i, An apoplectic fit I use to have, After my heats in war carelessly cool'd. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. xviii. (1837) 68 Choang fell lifeless in an apoplectic fit upon the floor. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxv. (C.D. ed.) 279 One of your stiff-starched apoplectic cravats. 1878A. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 85 Certain elements of the apoplectic attack.
2. Suffering from, or showing symptoms of, apoplexy. Also fig.
1721in Bailey. 1743tr. Heister's Surg. 354 The Operation has been twice performed by me on two apoplectic Patients. c1812Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1851) 17 A short-necked, apoplectic sort of fellow. 1837Dickens Pickw. (1847) 216/1 A gentleman with an apoplectic countenance. 1863Kemble Res. Georgia 61 The swollen, apoplectic-looking cotton bags.
†3. Of use against apoplexy; = antapoplectic.
1678tr. Charras' Royal Pharmac. 214 This Balsom bears the Name of Apoplectick by reason it is a great Remedy against Apoplexies. 1704Addison Italy (1766) 47 Apoplectic balsam. 1753Bailey, Apoplectick..good against the apoplexy. [Not in Johnson.]
B. n. One liable to, or suffering from, apoplexy.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams II. 134 (D.) So often we see there is life in an apoplectick, though he seem to be dead. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Lethargy, Those who fall into it should be manag'd as pituitous Apoplecticks. |