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单词 gad-stricken
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gad-stricken
gad-stricken adj. [originally after Hellenistic Greek ὁιστρηλατοῦμενος (apparently not attested in Plutarch; compare quot. 1658 at sense 2c); compare post-classical Latin oestro percitus (1512 or earlier; 1523 in Erasmus Adagia)] Obsolete bitten by a gadfly (in quot. 1658 as part of an extended metaphor; cf. gadfly n. 3).
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stangeda1400
worried1559
stinged1565
bitten1623
gad-stricken1658
snake-bit1807
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 937 Those famous Poets of old were said to be Oestro perciti, stung with this furious Fly called Oestrum. Plutarch cals them ὁιστρηλατουμενους, Gad-stricken.
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