phrenesisn.

Brit.

/frᵻˈniːsɪs/, U.S.

/frəˈnisᵻs/

Forms: 1500s freneses, 1500s frenesis, 1500s frenesys, 1500s phrenises, 1500s phrenises, 1500s phremyses (transmission error), 1500s– phrenesis.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin phrenēsis.

Etymology: < classical Latin phrenēsis delirium, madness, frenzy < Hellenistic Greek ϕρένησις (as a Greek word in Celsus) < ancient Greek ϕρεν- , ϕρήν mind (see phren n.) + -ησις , extended form of -σις -sis suffix, after Hellenistic Greek ϕρενητικός frenetic adj., on the model of pairs of related words in -ησις , -ητικός . Compare earlier frenzy n., and foreign-language parallels cited at that entry.

Now chiefly historical.

In early use (Medicine): = phrenitis n. Later also (more generally): madness, frenzy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain

phrenesisa1529

siriasis1601

phrenitis1621

brain fever1772

phrenicula1793

cephalitis1811

cerebritis1866

a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.ii^v Now pandez mory, wax frantycke som men saye Phroneses for frenesys, may not holde her way.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxx^v In the heed may be many infyrmytes as the apoplexy, the scotomy, the megrym, the sood, the phremyses [1598 phrenises].

1551 R. Ascham Let. 18 May in Wks. (1865) I. ii. 288 The prince of Spain..is this day fallen sore sick of a phrenesis.

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 5 An apostemacion in the braynes of some litle skinnes, that enuiron the braynes, the same are called Phrenesis.

1739 J. Keogh Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica 121 Phrenesis, a phrensy. It is an inflammation of the brain, or the films thereof, being a kind of continual madness, joined with a continual fever, hurting the internal senses.

1800 C. Lamb Let. 27 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 262 At length George Dyer's Phrenesis has come to a crisis, he is raging and furiously mad.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xii. 234 I conceive her to be possessed with a delirium, which I incline to term rather hypochondria than phrenesis.

1939 Language 15 33 It is technically used by Celsus for the delirium brought about by fever, and some manifestations of phrenesis.

1960 G. Allighan Curtain-up on S. Afr. 33 A city whose main preoccupations..was [sic] scholastic and legal, is now adjusting its tempo to the phrenesis of a new gold-rush with calm detachment.

1984 J. G. Howells & M. L. Osborn Ref. Compan. Hist. Abnormal Psychol. I. 43 He [sc. Johannes Arculanus] recognized the following mental disorders: phrenesis, true and false; lethargy; [etc.].

1995 F. Fernandez-Armesto Millennium iii. 103 The Christian ‘Reconquest’ was the work of widely interspersed bouts of phrenesis in the tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fifteenth centuries.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	phrenesis
释义	phrenesisn. Brit. /frᵻˈniːsɪs/, U.S. /frəˈnisᵻs/ Forms: 1500s freneses, 1500s frenesis, 1500s frenesys, 1500s phrenises, 1500s phrenises, 1500s phremyses (transmission error), 1500s– phrenesis. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin phrenēsis. Etymology: < classical Latin phrenēsis delirium, madness, frenzy < Hellenistic Greek ϕρένησις (as a Greek word in Celsus) < ancient Greek ϕρεν- , ϕρήν mind (see phren n.) + -ησις , extended form of -σις -sis suffix, after Hellenistic Greek ϕρενητικός frenetic adj., on the model of pairs of related words in -ησις , -ητικός . Compare earlier frenzy n., and foreign-language parallels cited at that entry. Now chiefly historical. In early use (Medicine): = phrenitis n. Later also (more generally): madness, frenzy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain phrenesisa1529 siriasis1601 phrenitis1621 brain fever1772 phrenicula1793 cephalitis1811 cerebritis1866 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.ii^v Now pandez mory, wax frantycke som men saye Phroneses for frenesys, may not holde her way. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxx^v In the heed may be many infyrmytes as the apoplexy, the scotomy, the megrym, the sood, the phremyses [1598 phrenises]. 1551 R. Ascham Let. 18 May in Wks. (1865) I. ii. 288 The prince of Spain..is this day fallen sore sick of a phrenesis. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 5 An apostemacion in the braynes of some litle skinnes, that enuiron the braynes, the same are called Phrenesis. 1739 J. Keogh Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica 121 Phrenesis, a phrensy. It is an inflammation of the brain, or the films thereof, being a kind of continual madness, joined with a continual fever, hurting the internal senses. 1800 C. Lamb Let. 27 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 262 At length George Dyer's Phrenesis has come to a crisis, he is raging and furiously mad. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xii. 234 I conceive her to be possessed with a delirium, which I incline to term rather hypochondria than phrenesis. 1939 Language 15 33 It is technically used by Celsus for the delirium brought about by fever, and some manifestations of phrenesis. 1960 G. Allighan Curtain-up on S. Afr. 33 A city whose main preoccupations..was [sic] scholastic and legal, is now adjusting its tempo to the phrenesis of a new gold-rush with calm detachment. 1984 J. G. Howells & M. L. Osborn Ref. Compan. Hist. Abnormal Psychol. I. 43 He [sc. Johannes Arculanus] recognized the following mental disorders: phrenesis, true and false; lethargy; [etc.]. 1995 F. Fernandez-Armesto Millennium iii. 103 The Christian ‘Reconquest’ was the work of widely interspersed bouts of phrenesis in the tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fifteenth centuries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1529
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