Middle English Dictionary Entry
peracūte adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | peracūte adj. |
| Etymology | L peracūtus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of a disease: very painful and dangerous.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)94a/b : Yliaca passio..is I-clepid one of þe eueles þat beþ I-clepid peracute [L vna de peracutis], swiþe scharp, for as Galien seiþ, hit sleþ in one day oþer in tweyne.