The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palsying
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.
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palsying
vb. (present participle of palsy English)
Usage examples of "palsying".
The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.
Doubtless many a one has at times felt the stupendous truths of astronomy thus palsying him with a crushing sense of his own nothingness and burying him in fatalistic despair.