单词 | malady |
释义 | maladyn. 1. Thesaurus » Categories » b. A specific kind of illness; an ailment, a disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] soreOE cothec1000 sicknessc1000 evilc1275 maladyc1275 grievance1377 passiona1382 infirmityc1384 mischiefa1387 affectiona1398 grievinga1398 grief1398 sicka1400 case?a1425 plaguec1425 diseasea1475 alteration1533 craze1534 uncome1538 impediment1542 affliction?1555 ailment1606 disaster1614 garget1615 morbus1630 ail1648 disaffect1683 disorder1690 illness1692 trouble1726 complaint1727 skookum1838 claim1898 itis1909 bug1918 wog1925 crud1932 bot1937 lurgy1947 Korean haemorrhagic fever1951 nadger1956 c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 218 He was i warisd of his maladie. c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 3921 God..heled him of his maladie. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 701 Fevyr, dropsy, and Iaunys, Tysyk, goute, and other maladys. 1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 424/1 For maladie, or for any other resonable cause. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxvi. 200 They knew not fulliche his Malade. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2127 (MED) Amendid of hire malidy his modire he fyndis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lx. 210 She tooke there such a maladye that she dyed therof. 1520 Chron. Eng. v. f. 44v/1 He sayd he wolde helpe the kynge of his malady. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 45 In dangeir of diuers maladeis, as of fluxis, caterris, collic, and gut. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 295 Abstinence ingenders maladies . View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 614 Q. Elizabeth..knew, that much meat, much malady. 1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 60 The entertainment and Cure of such as have the Venereal Malady. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 162 Those who breathe the impure air of cities have many maladies, to which the more happy rustics are strangers. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. ii. 619 The vast number of maladies which may attack our bodies. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 73 I carried my mother downstairs..at the beginning Of her soft-foot malady. 1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 69 The Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, the microbe responsible for the malady..known as diphtheria. 1970 D. Jacobson Rape of Tamar iv. 56 He was suffering..from a malady neither he nor his doctors could explain. 1987 F. Wyndham Other Garden vi. 78 If the pleurisy had been diagnosed sooner it would have been a minor malady. ΚΠ 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) xlix And fast by him pale Maladie was plaste, Sore sicke in bed, her colour al forgone. 2. figurative. The condition of mental, spiritual, or moral ill health (of an individual, of society or some section of it, or of the human race); any such condition that calls for a remedy. Cf. disease n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > a morbid moral condition rusteOE maladyc1385 disease1509 lepry1526 boil1537 leprosy?1555 imposthume1565 gangrene1588 ulcer1592 diseasedness1614 lesion1640 unwholesomeness1881 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1373 And in his gere for al the world he ferde Nat oonly lyk the loueris maladye Of Heroes, but rather lyk manye Engendred of humour malencolyk. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 239 To helen vs of seuen Maledius. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 459 That ilke unsely maladie The which is cleped Jelousie. ?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 117 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 55 Beeth leches of our synful maladie! c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1379 Thow ne feltist malady Save foul delyt. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 227 May nane remeid my maledie Sa weill as ȝe, schir, veralie. 1570 Homelie against Disobedience i. sig. Biv Suche leude remedies beyng farre worse then any other maladies and disorders that can be in the body of a common wealth. 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. iv. 41 Not hoping..so quick a call of a nationall Synod, as the present malady required. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 77 The Matron was not slow to find What sort of malady had seiz'd her mind. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 87. ⁋6 The cure of our intellectual maladies. 1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 5 Astrology is another malady of weak minds. 1829 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. June 458 Our spiritual maladies are but of Opinion. 1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 17 A clerk's calling is not the only one overdone. That of the governess suffers from the same malady. 1928 A. Huxley in Sunday Disp. 16 Dec. 12/6 No people..has suffered more than the English from that life-sapping malady of too much machinery. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 214 All department stores are symbols of sickness and emptiness, but Bloomingdale's is my special sickness, my incurable obscure malady. 1991 Sky Mag. Feb. 94/2 Only twelve months into their careers and already EMF live in fear of catching that terminal pop malady—teenyitis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1275 |
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