Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
comatose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Comatose.
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- adjective Archaic form of
comatose .
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Examples
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When the doctor said he would engage to find the same phenomena in every healthy man of the three kingdoms, the apothecary added, that the patient was manifestly comatous, and moreover afflicted with griping pains and borborygmata.
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-- He became after some weeks universally dropsical, and died comatous.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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When the doctor said he would engage to find the same phenomena in every healthy man of the three kingdoms, the apothecary added, that the patient was manifestly comatous, and moreover afflicted with griping pains and borborygmata.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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