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Sudden attack of illness
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seizure
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Seizure is the second album by New Zealand musician Chris Knox , released in 1989 by record label Flying Nun .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"act of seizing," late 15c., from seize + -ure . Meaning "sudden attack of illness" is attested from 1779.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law. 2 A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure). 3 A sudden onset of pain or emotion. 4 (context obsolete English) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seizure \Sei"zure\, n. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. ...
Usage examples of seizure.
Her parents were instructed, via an English-speaking relative, to give her 250 milligrams of ampicillin twice a day, to clear up her aspiration pneumonia, and twenty milligrams of Dilantin elixir, an anticonvulsant, twice a day, to suppress any further grand mal seizures.
July 17, 1862, and which act and the joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.
As a visiting detective from a foreign country working on a case, Lo Manto would be thousands of miles beyond his jurisdiction and maintain no powers of search, seizure, or arrest.
By the famous decree of Berlin, dated 21st November 1806, Mortier was compelled to order the seizure of all English merchandise in the Hanse Towns, but he enforced the decree only so far as to preserve the appearance of having obeyed his orders.
Ray did not succumb to the paralytic seizure occasioned by the twofold shock which she had experienced.
He had also learned something of the paralytic seizure which the disaster had occasioned.
Something that not only causes seizures and heart toxicity, but also, for a brief instance, parasympathetic stimulation.
Karen Hodges had initially suffered the same baffling parasympathetic symptoms before the onset of her seizure.
Manson was based on illegally obtained and perjured testimony, therefore the seizure of the person of Mr.
The hope was that at least one of the two postoperative hemispheres would be unaffected by subsequent seizures.
In 1391 murder, seizure of property, and forcible conversion of the Jews began, and this taste of violence soon turned into general insurrection against the clergy and propertied class, culminating in four days of terror in Barcelona.
The first phase of this plan entailed the seizure of the approaches to the Sardi Gorge and particularly important 1: in this dry and scalded desert would be the water supplies of the attacking army.
I was scared and intrigued at the same time, but as I was leaving, a stumblebum on the sidewalk ahead of me went into a seizure.
Three steps across the floor, seizure of the beard, a strike of the swange, three steps back and the deed is done, and yonder I see the valve which controls the lucifer.
A 1926 seizure in Hong Kong led to the arrest of a Chinese trafficker whose cabin, when searched, was found to contain a series of telegraph cables to and from a guy in Kobe called Wai Kee.