ataxy

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But on April 30, 1883, Manet died, exhausted by his work and struggles, of locomotor ataxy, after having vainly undergone the amputation of a foot to avoid gangrene Illustration: MANET THE BAR AT THE FOLIES-BERGČRE It will be seen that Manet fought through all his life: few artists' lives have been nobler.

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  1. Want of order; disturbance. Three ways of church government I have heard of, and no more; the Episcopal, the Presbyterial, and that newborn bastard Independency: … the last of these is nothing but a confounding ataxy. Sir E. Dering, Speeches, p. 141.
  2. In pathology, same as ataxia.

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  • In fact for a lamentably depraved condition of all the bodily health, such as characterises advanced locomotor ataxy, and allied spinal degradations leading to general physical failure. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • But on April 30, 1883, Manet died, exhausted by his work and struggles, of locomotor ataxy, after having vainly undergone the amputation of a foot to avoid gangrene Illustration: MANET THE BAR AT THE FOLIES-BERGČRE It will be seen that Manet fought through all his life: few artists' lives have been nobler. —  The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
  • (He didn't know what a locomotor ataxy was; but it sounded well, and was all the Latin he knew, having heard from his mother that a dissolute brother of hers had been afflicted with that complaint, superinduced by spirituous liquors The grocer-man turned the vegetable over and over again in his hand, and then asked the would-be vendor if he had any more. —  By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
  • Probably it was locomotor ataxy, which is the special scourge of the imaginative man. —  Through the Magic Door
  • Some suffer from locomotor ataxy. —  Bramble-Bees and Others
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  1. Formerly also, as F., ataxie, from New Latin ataxia, q. v.
 

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