单词 | apoplectic |
释义 | apoplecticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of, pertaining to, or causing, apoplexy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > disorders of brain > apoplexy apoplectica1625 apoplectical1656 apoplexiousa1734 apoplectiform1876 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Four Plays in One in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddddddd2v/1 An Apoplectick fit I use to have after my heats in war carelesly coold. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 66 Choang fell lifeless in an apoplectic fit upon the floor. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxv. 338 One of your stiff starched apoplectic cravats. 1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 85 Certain elements of the apoplectic attack. 2. Suffering from, or showing symptoms of, apoplexy. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > disorders of brain > apoplexy > suffering from apoplectical1615 apoplectic1721 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. ii. 354 The Operation has been twice performed by me on two apoplectic Patients. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. iii. 45 A short-neck'd, apoplectic sort of fellow. View more context for this quotation 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 275 A gentleman with an apoplectic countenance. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 61 The swollen, apoplectic-looking cotton bags. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [adjective] > for apoplexy antiapoplectic1670 apoplectic1678 apoplectical1721 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa 214 This Balsom bears the Name of Apoplectick by reason it is a great Remedy against Apoplexies. 1718 J. Addison Remarks Italy (ed. 2) 47 Apoplectic Balsom. 1753 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Apoplectick..good against the apoplexy. B. n. One liable to, or suffering from, apoplexy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > apoplexy > person apoplectica1670 a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 134 So often we see, there is life in an Apoplectick, though he seem to be dead. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lethargy Those who fall into it should be manag'd as pituitous Apoplecticks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.n.a1625 |
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