Middle English Dictionary Entry
apoplexie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | apoplexie n. Also poplexie. |
| Etymology | L, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Apoplexy; litel ~, lesse ~, epilepsy.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.187 : Valentinianus Augustus..deide in a manere outbrekynge of his veynes, and is auel [vr. euel] þat Grees clepeþ apoplexia.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4031 : Napoplexie [vr. Ne poplexie] shente nat hir heed.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)82a/a-b : Apoplexia stoppiþ alle þe chambres of þe brayne, wiþ priuacioun & diminucioun of felinge & of meuynge..phisicians clepiþ þis fallinge yuel [Epilencia] þe litil apoplexia.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)83b/a : Somtyme þe palesie comeþ of an oþir Iuel, as whanne þe lasse apoplexia endiþ.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)58a/a : As apoplexia is molliciez, i. softnez of alle þe body, so is peralisy of one half, somtyme forsoþ of þe riȝte halfe, som tyme of þe lefte.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)123b/a : For vnwise blackyngez of herez with comoun medicynez..many wymmen come in to perilez..for þair heuedez ar incolded somtyme forsoþ in to apoplexie [*Ch.(2): appoplexie i. derkenesse of sight] & epilencie.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)120a/b : [Fat men] ben..disposede to þe appoplexie i. a sodeyn strangelynge of blode.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)101/27 : Quakyng eyen and grete..shewith devowryng, and vntemperance of wyne and women, and appopelixe.
Note: New spelling
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. apoplexy.