单词 | valetudinary |
释义 | valetudinaryadj.n. A. adj. 1. Not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm, or delicate; invalid: a. Of the body, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxx. 109 Either it is sickly..or it is healthy..or it is valetudinarie, neither pure sicke nor perfit whole. 1619 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 174 I carry an infirme and valetudinary body. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 230 Oxford..I have known to be very disagreeable to some moist splenetick and valetudinary bodies. 1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 705 His puny and valetudinary frame would not permit him. b. Of persons. (In later use frequently implying anxious attention to the state of one's own health.) ΚΠ 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxcvii. 161 For they [sc. students] be commonly valetudinary, that is sickely. 1646 R. Baillie Anabaptism Pref. sig. A4 Very small changes of the heavens and air are able to vex much a crazy and valetudinary person. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 242 Sick and valetudinary Persons used to be sent thither. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady Pref. p. viii A gross, full, high Diet, is [improper] for a poor, thin, low, valetudinary Creature. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 225 All the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man. 1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. i. 19 Though valetudinary, he lived to be nearly ninety. 1844 N. P. Willis Lady Jane i. 44 The men being old and valetudinary. 2. Of conditions, etc.: Characterized by weak or feeble health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > characterized by ill health sickly1406 queasy1603 valetudinary1620 valetudinarian1713 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 163 Such as are naturally infirme, and of a valetudinary state of body. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xv. 530 No Cough nor any signs of a Valetudinary disposition of the Lungs do appear. 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 13 A person seemingly of a weakly Stamen and a valetudinary Constitution. a1776 R. James Diss. Fevers (1778) 44 Mr. Collyer..has by that means been brought from the most valetudinary state, to one of great health and vigour. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft ix. 331 Apparently a man of melancholic and valetudinary habits. 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. 386 The last thirty-six years of his long life was passed in valetudinary retirement. B. n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary maison dieu1354 fermery1377 leech-house1483 sick-house1491 hospital1549 infirmitorya1552 guest house1600 infirmatory1603 valetudinary1623 infirmary1625 nosocome1653 hôtel-Dieuc1660 hothouse1707 sanity-institution1799 butcher's shop1890 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Valetudinarie, an Hospitall. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. ii. 45 There lay the poor man, till being found, he was carried into the Valetudinary. 2. = valetudinarian n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] sickc888 lazar1340 sickmanc1340 laborant?a1425 suffererc1450 malade1483 patient1484 lazar-man1552 languisher1599 ruina1616 plaintiff1633 valetudinarist1651 valetudinaire?c1682 valetudinarian1703 invalid1709 infirm1711 invaletudinarian1762 valetudinary1785 complainant1861 aegrotant1865 degenerate1895 1785 Lounger (1787) I. 200 Dr. Doddipoll was a valetudinary like myself. 1787 F. Burney Diary 15 Aug. (1842) III. 427 General Grenville, a silent, reserved valetudinary, went under the same convoy. 1851 E. Fitzgerald Euphranor 46 It is better to die well ever so young than to grow up a valetudinary and poltroon. 1860 Macmillan's Mag. 2 36 The painters who have shown him [Christ] as a delicate valetudinary. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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