单词 | aegrotant |
释义 | aegrotantn.adj. A sick person, an invalid. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] sickc888 lazar1340 sickmanc1340 laborant?a1425 suffererc1450 malade1483 patient1484 lazar-man1552 languisher1599 ruina1616 plaintiff1633 valetudinarist1651 valetudinaire?c1682 valetudinarian1703 invalid1709 infirm1711 invaletudinarian1762 valetudinary1785 complainant1861 aegrotant1865 degenerate1895 1865 Temple Bar Sept. 262 There is a large class of ægrotants in this country. 1876 E. Seguin Med. Thermometry & Human Temperature (ed. 2) ii. x. 357 In this order of simulation there are constantly some people making it their business to live without food..febricants, vomitants, rheumatisants, egrotants of some sort. B. adj. Sick; excused from some duty on account of sickness. rare.Quot. 1880 may alternatively show loose attributive use of Latin aegrotant ‘they are sick’, plural of aegrotat (see aegrotat n.). ΚΠ 1880 Cambr. Rev. 4 Feb. 6/1 Obliged through severe illness to take an Ægrotant degree. 1898 C. Bell tr. J. K. Huysmans Cathedral ix. 160 The Oblates, the aegrotant members of the Benedictine army. 1917 Oxf. Mag. 2 Mar. 182/2 The good old custom of having the sermon read for an aegrotant preacher has not been practised of late. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1865 |
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