单词 | podagrous |
释义 | podagrousadj. Medicine. Now rare. Of or relating to gout; suffering from gout; gouty. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > gout arthritic?a1425 podagric?a1425 podagrical1576 gouty1615 podagrous1683 goutish1700 podagral1773 1683 tr. J. B. van Helmont Præcipiolum in Collectanea Chymica (1684) 58 One Grain [of salt] will Purge very softly all Podagrous, Venemous and Hydropical Humors. a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line in Westover MSS (1841) 66 Our podagrous friend, whose lameness was now grown better, and the inflammation fallen. 1821 Ld. Byron Let. 20 Nov. (1979) IX. 66 I am glad you have got rid of the Gout, the tumour if not of podagrous origin—will subside of itself. 1863 Temple Bar 8 73 If it be a crime to be hereditarily podagrous, take me to the Tower. 1968 Times 18 June 12/4 The battle between Montagues and Capulets conveyed a lithe, muscular drama..that made almost every other interpretation of these sections seem grotesquely podagrous and stagnant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1683 |
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