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- adjective Obsolete form of
paralytic . - noun Obsolete form of
paralytic .
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Examples
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Soon after, I perceived that I had suffered a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me.
How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..." Ann Althouse 2008
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At six years old _Judith_ lost the use of her left side by a paralytick stroke; she never was perfectly cured, and her mind remained feeble and dull; on the contrary, _Helen_ was handsome, intelligent and even witty.
A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss
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We used to meet weekly, about the year fifty, and we were as cheerful as in former times; only I could not make quite so much noise, for since the paralytick affliction my voice is sometimes weak. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Mr. Budworth was certainly no stranger to the learning or abilities of Johnson; as he more than once lamented his having been under the necessity of declining the engagement, from an apprehension that the paralytick affection, under which our great Philologist laboured through life, might become the object of imitation or of ridicule, among his pupils. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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[113] Johnson described her as 'an old lady, who talks broad Scotch with a paralytick voice, and is scarce understood by her own countrymen.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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My fear is lest he should grow paralytick, -- there are really some symptoms already discoverable, I think, about the mouth particularly.
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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'Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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We should be great Fools to grow pale, and become paralytick in studying and finding out in the Scores, the Harmony, the
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692
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‘Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me.
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