Samuel Johnson's Definition of Apoplexy
From Samuel Johnson, The
Dictionary of the English Language (1755):
APOPLECTICAL. adj. [from apoplexy]. Relating to an
apoplexy.
We meet with the same complaints of gravity in living bodies,
when the faculty locomotive seems abolished; as may be observed
in supporting persons inebriated, apoplectical, or in
lipothymies and swoonings. Brown's Vulgar Errours,
b. iv.
In an apoplectical case, he found extravasated blood,
making way from the ventricles of the brain. Derham's
Physico-Theol.
APOPLECTICK. adj. [from apoplexy.] Relating to an
apoplexy.
A lady was seized with an apoplectick fit, which afterward
terminated in some kind of lethargy. Wiseman's Surgery.
APOPLEX. n.s. [See APOPLEXY.] Apoplexy. The last
syllable is cut away; but this is only in poetry.
Present punishment pursues his maw,
When surfeited and
swell'd, the peacock raw,
He bears into the bath; whence want
of breath,
Repletions, apoplex, intestate death.
Dryden's Juvenal.
APOPLEXED. adj. [from apoplex.] Seized with an
apoplexy.
Sense, sure, you have,
Else could you not have motion: but
sure that sense
Is apoplex'd. Shakesp. Hamlet.
APOPLEXY. n.s. [apoplexis.] A sudden deprivation
of all internal and external sensation, and of all motion, unless
of the heart and thorax. The cause is generally a repletion, and
indicates evacuation, joined with stimuli. Quincy.
Apoplexy is a sudden abolition of all the senses, external
and internal, and of all voluntary motion, by the stoppage of the
flux and reflux of the animal spirits through the nerves destined
for those motions. Arbuthnot on Diet.
Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy, mulled, deaf, sleepy,
insensible. Shakesp. Coriolanus.
A fever may take away my reason, or memory, and an
apoplexy leave neither sense nor understanding.
Locke.
