Crossword clues for hysteric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hysteric \Hys*ter"ic\, Hysterical \Hys*ter"ic*al\, a. [L. hystericus, Gr. ?, fr. "yste`ra the womb; perh. akin to ? latter, later, and E. utter, out.]
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Of or pertaining to hysteria.
With no hysteric weakness or feverish excitement, they preserved their peace and patience.
--Bancroft. In a state of hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; uncontrollably emotional; convulsive, fitful.
In a state of panic or behaving in a wild irrational manner, due to fear or emotional trauma.
Resembling hysteria; as, hysterical laughter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos âbelonging to the wombâ (see hysterical). As a noun from 1751.
Wiktionary
a. hysterical. n. A hysterical person.
WordNet
adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia" [syn: hysterical]
n. a person suffering from hysteria
Usage examples of "hysteric".
It was just over an hour later that the Earl of Sea- grave, striding in at the door of Dilling ham Court, was distracted by the sound of his own mother in strong hysterics.
It was a cure for impurities of the blood, coughs, pleurisy, peripneumony, erysipelas, asthma, indigestion, carchexia, hysterics, dropsy, mortification, scurvy, and hypochondria.
She is the clinging sort, just like her mother, and would demand constant escort, falling into megrims and hysterics at any hint of neglect.
The Endicott children went into hysterics and charged that Rebecca Nourse had bewitched them.
A hysteric, Carr, hi fact the most classic example I have ever encountered, with unequaled mediumistic capacities and also with a hyper-trophied and utterly ruthless ambition.
They rigidified the codification of sex and gender, labeling those who dared to deviate from these codes or even fantasize about something different perverts and hysterics.
Out burst a deluge of liquor so fierce-- so impetuous--so overwhelming--that the room was flooded from wall to wall--the loaded table was overturned--the tressels were thrown upon their backs--the tub of punch into the fire-place--and the ladies into hysterics.
The walls came faster, and faster, until Hala at last stopped the hysterics and held out her hand.
The Lacedemonian nation might have approved of it, but most modern dames would have gone into hysterics at the sight.
Ordinarily, since she wore the bare minimum of make-up, and her hair au naturale, she was ready for anything inside of twenty minutes, but she needed something to occupy her mind, to keep from descending into hysterics again.
Sterile, prepackaged peekaboo breasts flaunted on a woman who would probably go into hysterics if a square inch of natural torso were ever to show.
Charlie a lesson, and I could feel one of my spasms coming on, only Augusta told Rotherham he was a great fool not to have locked up the gunroom when he had an imp like Charlie to stay, and said surely he could not wish me to fall into strong hysterics, and so it passed off, and I was truly grateful to Augusta.
He watched the clubbers disappear in the distance like a roving carnival of religious hysterics, invading the wet grey streets to search for converts.
The first said that the convulsions were caused by hysterics, but the doctor said no, and prescribed rest and cold baths.
Phil had made his grand entry on Emperor, and Teddy had nearly sent the spectators into hysterics by his funny antics on the back of Jumbo, the educated mule.