单词 | running madness |
释义 | > as lemmasrunning madness running madness n. now historical and rare a form or stage of rabies in dogs; furious rabies; cf. earlier running woodness n. ΚΠ 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 220 The second kinde of madnesse, is called running madnesse, and is likewise vncureable. But the byting thereof is not so venemous, nor so dangerous for other beastes, as the first is. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 136/1 Madness, of which there are several sorts: as Burning Madness, Running Madness, Dum Madness, Falling Madness, Sleeping Madness, Rewmatick, or the Slavering Madness. 1784 Hist. Westm. Election 281 He contended that relaxation and the hot weather might produce upon the unfortunate patient that kind of madness peculiar to the canine species, known to the French by the name of La Rage Courante, or the Running Madness, which rarely or never terminates but with death. 1812 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports I. 186 Canine Madness was formerly divided into seven classes. Hot burning Madness and Running Madness were deemed incurable. 1918 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 31 38 All we are told of these diseases [of dogs] is that there are seven varieties of madness, of which only two, the Hot and Running madness, are true madness. < as lemmas |
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