Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Halting; limping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Limping.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine limping
  • noun medicine One who limps.

Etymologies

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Latin claudicans, present participle of claudico ("to limp"), from claudus ("crippled").

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Examples

  • Χ -, αμβχζειν cnim claudicarc llgnificat apud vctcrcs: a σχοίμβίζ, pravus, diftcrtus: quod, qui claudicant, diftortos pedcs habere foleant.

    Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine 1705

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