sicklied
simple past tense and past participle of sickly
• disclike, kidsicle
Source: Wiktionary
Sick"lied, a.
Definition: Made sickly. See Sickly, v.
Sick"ly, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn.
– Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv.
Definition: In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t.
Definition: To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.
Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seĂłc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.
– Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
– Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
– Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.
– Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.
– Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.
Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]
Syn.
– Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
Sick, n.
Definition: Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sick, v. i.
Definition: To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 March 2025
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