| 单词 | foul evil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoul evil foul evil n. now historical and rare any of various disorders characterized esp. by (supposed) putrefaction or by the production of pus or malodorous excretions; esp. epilepsy and syphilis.The use of this name for epilepsy may have arisen because of the occurrence of urinary or faecal incontinence during seizures; cf. also quot. a1398, which refers to the passage of excessive quantities of urine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > syphilis foul evila1398 grandgore1497 French disease1503 French pox1503 pox1503 great pocka1519 great pox1529 morbus gallicus1543 gore1554 marbles1592 verol1596 Spanish pox1600 verola1600 the foul evil1607 bube1608 grincome1608 Neapolitan1631 lues1634 scabbado1651 venereal syphilis1653 foul disease1680 gout1694 syphilid1829 syphiloid1833 syphiloderma1850 vaccino-syphilis1868 neurosyphilis1878 old ral1878 syph1914 bejel1928 cosmic disease- 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- a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lv. 410 To hem þat haueþ þis foule euel [sc. diampnes oþir diabetica passio] þinges þat slakeþ hete beþ nedeful. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 96 God on hem sendeþ Feueres oþer fouler hyueles [emended in ed. to yueles]. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccclxvi*/2 There was a man..whiche hadde an horryble maladye, that he fylle of the fowle euylle wel sex tymes in a day. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) ii. 127 As ‘the foule euyll’, whyche is the fallyng syckenes, is at the ende of euery skottysh mans tale. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxiii. 93 The vse of Plantayne is good..against Cankers, Fistulas, & the foule euill or French Pockes, and all scuruinesse. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 732 The disease called the Foule-euill. 1975 B. Clarke Mental Disorder in Earlier Brit. viii. 214 (note) The medical ‘saints’ mentioned included Ipacre for the ague and Cornellis for the foul evil. < as lemmas |
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