| 单词 | falling evil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalling evil falling evil n. [compare evil n.1 7a] now historical ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 134 Fallinde uuel iclepie licomes secnesse. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. x. 355 Þe epilentik, þat is, him þat hath þe fallinge euel. c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 229 (MED) For þe fallyng euyll, a precyus medcyn. 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 204 For slepe is an ymage and representacion of death, and the acte of venereous copulacion a plaine spiece of the fallyng eiuil. 1652 W. Lilly Annus Tenebrosus 44 Never were so many men so suddenly destroyed by the falling Evill and Apoplecticall Diseases as in that year wherein there happened a great Eclips in Aries. 1705 E. Ward Fortune's Bounty 10 In numbers flock'd Phisicians too, Who knew not how to tame a Shrew, or cure for th' ease of their own Lives, the Falling Evil in their Wives. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. 758 [Epilepsy] received from our ancestors the apt symptomatic name of the ‘falling-evil’ or ‘falling-sickness’. 1971 Proc. Amer. Philol. Soc. 115 304/2 There were a number of incantations for the falling evil. < as lemmas |
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