procatarxis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“first beginning”).
Noun[edit]
procatarxis
- (medicine, dated) The kindling of a disease into action; the procatarctic cause.
- 1685, Thomas Willis, The London Practice of Physick:
- a sudden , ſolemn , and invincible cause, without any previous Disposition or Procatarxis
References[edit]
- “procatarxis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.