falling sickness
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See also: falling-sickness
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Old English fiellesēocnes, German Fallsucht.
Noun[edit]
falling sickness (uncountable)
- (archaic) Epilepsy.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless.
Brutus. 'T is very like: he hath the falling sickness.
Translations[edit]
archaic term for “epilepsy”
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