cardiacle

Middle English

Noun

cardiacle

1. A pain about the heart.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 312-313:

     [...] But wel I woot, thou doost my herte to erme,
     That I almost have caught a cardiacle.

     [...] But well I know thou makes mine heart to grieve so,
     That I almost have caught a palpitation of the heart.

References

• “cardiacle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.