| 单词 | thought-sick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought-sick thought-sick adj. sick with anxiety or through thinking; now only with reference or allusion to quot. 1604. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [adjective] > adversely affected by thought-sicka1586 over-thoughtful1687 overthoughted1877 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxiii. sig. Dd3v (heading) Zelmane thought-sicke, vnmaskes her selfe. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 9 Thought-sicke louers haue onely reason their soueraigne refuge. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 50 The very soule..Is thought sick at the act. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 187 For what is poore, and silly man alone, but a very scrich-owle, and satyre, a melancholick and hypochondriack creature, growing pensive and thought-sick? 1794 R. Lee Flowers from Sharon 124 My Courage fell, my Thought-sick Mind Indulged a melancholy Mood. 1829 C. Lamb Poet. Wks. (1836) 72 Thought-sick and tired Of controversy. 1950 College Eng. 11 259/2 The soliloquies and the other cruxes in the play that have led critics..to see a sentimental, thought-sick Hamlet in an Elizabethan tragedy. < as lemmas |
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