Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SICKLILY
Etymology
Adverb
sicklily (comparative more sicklily, superlative most sicklily)
In a sickly manner.
Source: Wiktionary
SICKLY
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
Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seóc; 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
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