palsied
(adjective) affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; “palsied hands”
palsy
(verb) affect with palsy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
palsied (comparative more palsied, superlative most palsied)
Afflicted with palsy.
Trembling as if afflicted with palsy.
palsied
simple past tense and past participle of palsy
• Pleiads, alipeds, elapids, plaides, pleiads
Source: Wiktionary
Pal"sied, a.
Definition: Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
Pal"sy, n.; pl. Palsies. Etym: [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See Paralysis.] (Med.)
Definition: Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3. Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
– Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
– Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.
Pal"sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palsied; p. pr. & vb. n. Palsying.]
Definition: To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 November 2024
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