podagricaladj.
/pɒˈdaɡrᵻkl/, /pəˈdaɡrᵻkl/, U.S. /pəˈdæɡrək(ə)l/ Medicine. Now archaic.
= podagrous adj.
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arthritic?a1425
podagric?a1425
podagrical1576
gouty1615
podagrous1683
goutish1700
podagral1773
1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 237 If you meane not to beget to your selfe the Podagricall disease for your daughter.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 73 That a Loadstone held in the hand of one that is podagricall doth either cure or give great ease in the gout. View more context for this quotation
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4028 Some Podagrical people,..happening to be seized by the Plague, lost the Gout, and recover'd of the Plague too.
1707 T. Brown Lett. from Dead to Living in Wks. II. 14 My Anodyne Spirit,..excellent for..Podagrical Inflammations.
1788 J. Trusler Habitable World Described 188 An excellent application in all podagrical, arthritic complaints.
1871 R. Soule Dict. Eng. Synonymes 184/1 Gouty, podagric, podagrical.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 3 Oct. 14 Mention, on the Paulsgrove estate, that one is podagrical and a boil on the feet would not be the only thing lanced forthwith.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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