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palsy

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Word definitions for palsy in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palsy \Pal"sy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palsied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palsying .] To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"disease causing paralysis," c.1300, palesie , from Anglo-French parlesie , Old French paralisie , from Vulgar Latin *paralysia , from Latin paralysis (see paralysis ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context pathology English) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking. vb. To paralyse, either completely or partially. Etymology 2 (context ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. loss of the ability to move a body part [syn: paralysis ] a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor v. affect with palsy [also: palsied ]

Usage examples of palsy.

Severely paralyzed on his left side and diagnosed with bulbar palsy, he now moves about with the use of a walker.

The plan of a necessary and indiscriminate redemption likewise breaks the evident continuity of life, ignores the lineal causative power of experience, whereby each moment partially produces and moulds the next, destroys the probationary nature of our lot, and palsies the strength of moral motive.

The deciduous trees were always skeletal, the pines palsied, the willows wind-whipped and nubbly, the grass dun and crunchy underfoot, the water-rats always seeing the big drainage-picture first and gliding like night to the cement sides to flee.

For six weeks hewas a tramp, a thoroughly washed-out hopeless rumdum, with rheumy eyes and palsied hands and a weak bladder.

Subject to bouts of spinning faintness, followed by shuddering palsy, he handled himself with eggshell tenderness and kept still as much as he could.

She was an open car, capable of some eighteen miles on the flat, with tetanic gears and a perpetual palsy.

Children with something worse than missing limbs, or hydrocephaly or spina bifida or muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy.

All reflecting persons, even those whose minds have been half palsied by the deadly dogmas which have done all they could to disorganize their thinking powers,--all reflecting persons, I say, must recognize, in looking back over a long life, how largely their creeds, their course of life, their wisdom and unwisdom, their whole characters, were shaped by the conditions which surrounded them.

Now, the sternest dogmas that ever came from a soul cramped or palsied by an obsolete creed become wonderfully softened in passing between the lips of a mother.

The hill-sides of Syria are riddled with holes, where miserable hermits, whose lives it had palsied, lived and died like the vermin they harbored.

Look how he scratches his brow with a palsied hand not entirely wiped clean of paint!

The nodes and cells of brick and wood and palsied concrete had gone rogue, spreading like malignant tumours.

Huntley changed colour: a sudden rush of thought palsied the beatings of his heart.

The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs.

I told her how the fear of her danger palsied my exertions, how the knowledge of her safety strung my nerves to endurance.