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pleurisyn.Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pleuresie; Latin pleurisis. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French pleuresie (c1240 in Anglo-Norman; also as pleuresin (14th cent. in an isolated attestation) and pleurisie (second half of the 13th cent. in Old French (Normandy)); French pleurésie ) and its etymon post-classical Latin pleurisis (c400), pleuresis (11th cent.), variant of classical Latin pleurītis pleuritis n.Forms in plur- are apparently after classical Latin plūr- , plūs more (see plus prep., n., adv., and adj.), arising from a mistaken view that the medical condition was due to an excess of humours (compare sense 2); e.g.:1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 9v The patient, which by ouer much blood falleth into the Plurisie. With sense 2 compare also plurity n., pluracy n. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > pleurisy α. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 52v Somtyme apustome is I-brad þerinne, as it fariþ in pleresym [L. pleuresi], þat is I-brad & comeþ of a postome þat is in þe tendirnesse of þe ribbes. c1425 tr. J. Arderne (Sloane 6) (1910) 82b/b Pleuresi [v.r. pleutesy], aposteme of þe ribbis wiþ inne. a1535 T. More (1553) iii. xxiiii. sig. U.iiv And they that lye in a pleuresie thinke at euerye time that they coughe, they fele a sharpe sword swappe them to the hearte. 1547 A. Borde i. f. Cixv A pluryse the which is an impostume in the teneryte of the bones. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 52, in The seede drunke, is good against the pleuritie. 1676 J. Worlidge 149 Apples..are good..against Melancholy, and the Pleurisie [1691 pleuresie]. 1709 No. 4513/1 Many have died during the Severity of this Winter of Plurisies. 1772 G. Washington II. 55 Rid to the Mill Plantation to see a Negro Man sick of Pleurisy. 1862 H. W. Fuller 171 Pleurisy..is one of the commonest diseases. 1898 B. P. Colton v. 108 In pleurisy (inflammation of the pleuræ), pain is felt in breathing from friction or adhesion of these surfaces. 1932 ‘N. Shute’ ii. 24 You managed to turn a simple touch of flu into a pleurisy. 1946 G. Hopkins tr. F. Mauriac vii. 91 The attack of pleurisy was serious. 1949 H. Bailey (ed. 11) xxiii. 292 A patient with diaphragmatic pleurisy prefers to be propped or sitting up in bed, whilst if the lesion is below the diaphragm he prefers to lie flat. 1990 C. Allen (1991) 277 I had one guy get pleurisy, several went down with very bad influenza but they all refused to stop soldiering. 1994 88 140/1 In four autoimmune disease patients, the pleurisies were caused by rheumatoid arthritis, [etc.]. β. c1425 tr. J. Arderne (Sloane 6) (1910) 57 (MED) Þe emoroydez..preserueþ þe body fro many sekenez aduste and corrupte, as is Mania, malencolia, pleuresis, [etc.].1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig sig. Dijv Good for the sekenes named pleuresis.1569 R. Grafton II. 938 He sickened of a disease, called Pluresis.1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Second Pt. in (rev. ed.) 58 A Pleurisis, which is a very acute disease.the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > superabundance a1550 Vox Populi 655 in W. C. Hazlitt (1864) III. 290 Suppresse this shamfull vsurye, Comonlye called husbondrye: For yf there be no remeadye,..Yt wyll breade to a pluresye. 1597 J. Howson 44 For feare of a Pleurisie by impropriations, customes and compositions. 1604 W. Shakespeare iv. vii. 96 + 4 For goodnes growing to a plurisie, Dies in his owne too much. 1614 T. Adams (new ed.) 281 Hee that will let the proud mans Plurisie blood, must needs pricke him. 1642 T. Fuller ii. xiii. 101 Long since had this land been sick of a plurisie of people, if not let blood in their Western Plantations. 1668 D. Lloyd 684 Letting them bloud to cure them of their Pleurisie of Pride on the wrong side. 1798 J. M. Mason 45 Instead of pleurisy we should read plurisy—a substantive formed from the Latin plus, pluris; and which frequently occurs in the old dramatic writings, where it means abundance, or fulness to excess. Compounds the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > pleurisy-root the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for pleurisy > plant-derived 1764 in (1925) II. 569 Milkweed or Pleurisy Root prefers stony ground; has leaves like an orange tree, and a brown stem. It grows about one foot high, and at the top has one or more bunches of pretty, white, little flowers. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur vii. 259 Pleurisy-root. Flux-root, &c... A perennial plant, growing all over the United States, in gravelly and hilly grounds. 1892 C. F. Millspaugh 135-3 The pleurisy-root has received more attention as a medicine than any other species of this genus. 1995 8/1 (advt.) Butterfly Weed... Also known as Indian Paintbrush or Pleurisy Root. Showy orange flowers bloom in August and September. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |