palsical

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

palsy +‎ -ical.

Adjective[edit]

palsical (comparative more palsical, superlative most palsical)

  1. (obsolete) Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic.
    • 1749, Johann Heinrich Cohausen, Hermippus Redivivus:
      For this heat doth help the palsical, it restores and preserves the wasted strength of the native heat

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