accidie

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The meridian demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless post-prandial melancholy which the coenobites of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie."

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  • They have little food, and they will not try to get more, for a disease has come upon them, a dreadful accidie which makes them impotent and without hope. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • The meridian demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless post-prandial melancholy which the coenobites of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie." —  Crome Yellow
  • Gif me hit nat naut {;} þenne is hit gemeles vnder accidie · þat ich slouþe cleopede. —  Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
  • _, January 2nd, 1824.] [Footnote 164: The _accidie_ of the Middle Ages was a form of —  The Youth of Goethe
  • There is accidie and scrupulousness and contempt of others, and a host of snares that you know little of now. " —  The King's Achievement
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  1. Middle English, = Old French accide = Spanish Portuguese acidia = Italian accidia, from Middle Latin accidia, slothfulness, indolence; also, and better, spelled acedia, q. v.
 

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