Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
paralytic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
paralytic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
paralysis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or of the nature of paralysis
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is to be understood of a dumb person, made so by some paralytical or apoplectical stroke, which sometimes wounds the understanding.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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"After amassing a considerable fortune he died, sir, of a paralytical stroke, upon the 12th of November last."
The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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She was out of humour at being interrupted, and therefore did not peruse this specimen of her nephew’s understanding with all the relish that the commodore himself had enjoyed; on the contrary, after sundry paralytical endeavours to speak (for her tongue sometimes refused its office), she observed that the boy was a pert jackanapes, and deserved to be severely chastised for treating his betters with such disrespect.
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