Palsy
['pɔːlzɪ;'pɒl-] or ['pɔlzi]
Definition
(noun.) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor.
(verb.) affect with palsy.
Editor: Margie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.
(v. t.) To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
Typist: Tito
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Paralysis.
v. a. Paralyze, benumb, deaden.
Checker: Rosalind
Definition
n. a loss of power or of feeling more or less complete in the muscles of the body: paralysis.—v.t. to affect with palsy: to deprive of action or energy: to paralyse:—pa.p. pal′sied.
Typed by Laverne
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are afflicted with palsy, denotes that you are making unstable contracts. To see your friend so afflicted, there will be uncertainty as to his faithfulness and sickness, too, may enter your home. For lovers to dream that their sweethearts have palsy, signifies that dissatisfaction over some question will mar their happiness.
Edited by Jimmy
Examples
- His limbs were shaking with disease, and the palsy had fastened on his mind. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her faculties were palsied. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But not again did he return with a stout man and wife; for this time, he led in two palsied women, who shook and tottered as they walked. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Get on,' rejoined Eugene, tapping his palsied head with the fire-shovel, as it sank on his breast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I told her how the fear of her danger palsied my exertions, how the knowledge of her safety strung my nerves to endurance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Tom