| 单词 | comitial sickness |
| 释义 | > as lemmascomitial sickness b. comitial sickness, comitial fit, comitial evil, etc.: the ‘falling sickness’ or epilepsy. [Latin morbus comitialis, so called because its occurrence during the comitia was considered ominous and broke up the meeting.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy brothfallc1175 foul evila1398 the falling evila1400 falling gouta1400 land-evilc1440 falling sickness1485 epilency1495 falling-ill1561 comitial fit1562 St John's disease1574 epilepsy1578 falling disease1580 St John's evil1605 epilepse1804 sacred malady- 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 80v, in Bulwarke of Defence Castor is good to helpe the Comitiall or fallyng sicknesse. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 346 And Megrim growes to the Comitial-Ill. 1627 H. Burton Baiting Popes Bull 43 His epilepsian or comitial fit. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια ii. 26 The epilepsy or comitiall sicknesse. < as lemmas |
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