night sweatn.

Brit.

/ˈnʌɪt swɛt/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪt ˌswɛt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: night n., sweat n.

Etymology: < night n. + sweat n.

A fit of profuse sweating occurring during the night, sometimes as a symptom of disease (usually in plural). Also: the sweat produced. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > excessive or morbid sweating

night sweat1703

hyperhidrosis1855

uridrosis1857

parhidrosis1890

sudoresis1901

1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1381 A Rash appear'd, which..left her in a Hectick, with redness in her Cheeks towards evening, Night Sweats, continual Looseness, extreme wasting of her Flesh, and at length a swelling in her Legs.

1751 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Med. Precepts iii. 82 In two months a hectic came on, attended with thirst, heat, and night sweats.

1789 Med. Jrnl. 2 19 The night-sweats, and other hectic symptoms, were now extreme.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 176 Flowers that looked as if they had never had the night-sweat in all their lives.

1878 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 600 With this are necessarily associated night-sweats and other characteristic features of hectic.

1959 New Statesman 28 Nov. 760/2 The founder of Protestantism with his fits of melancholia, his anxiety attacks, night sweats, and anguish about concupiscence.

1969 R. Lowell Notebk. (1979) 175 We wrang the night-sweat from his shirt and sheets.

1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) iv. xv. 153 The nightsweats themselves seemed a particularly hellish ordeal that was virtually a rite of passage into this most devilish disease.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	night sweat
释义	night sweatn. Brit. /ˈnʌɪt swɛt/, U.S. /ˈnaɪt ˌswɛt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: night n., sweat n. Etymology: < night n. + sweat n. A fit of profuse sweating occurring during the night, sometimes as a symptom of disease (usually in plural). Also: the sweat produced. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > excessive or morbid sweating night sweat1703 hyperhidrosis1855 uridrosis1857 parhidrosis1890 sudoresis1901 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1381 A Rash appear'd, which..left her in a Hectick, with redness in her Cheeks towards evening, Night Sweats, continual Looseness, extreme wasting of her Flesh, and at length a swelling in her Legs. 1751 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Med. Precepts iii. 82 In two months a hectic came on, attended with thirst, heat, and night sweats. 1789 Med. Jrnl. 2 19 The night-sweats, and other hectic symptoms, were now extreme. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 176 Flowers that looked as if they had never had the night-sweat in all their lives. 1878 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 600 With this are necessarily associated night-sweats and other characteristic features of hectic. 1959 New Statesman 28 Nov. 760/2 The founder of Protestantism with his fits of melancholia, his anxiety attacks, night sweats, and anguish about concupiscence. 1969 R. Lowell Notebk. (1979) 175 We wrang the night-sweat from his shirt and sheets. 1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) iv. xv. 153 The nightsweats themselves seemed a particularly hellish ordeal that was virtually a rite of passage into this most devilish disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1703
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