Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
falling-sickness .
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Examples
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Afterwards, to excuse his folly, he imputed it to his disease, saying that their wits are not perfect which have this disease of the falling-evil. "
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590
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