Word Meanings - CRAPULENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

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• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• SURFEIT-WATER
  Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
• SURFEIT
  arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See 1. Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick
• SURFEITER
  One who surfeits. Shak.
• OCCASIONABLE
  Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
• OCCASIONALLY
  In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
• SICKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. 2. Nausea; qualmishness;
• OCCASIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts. The... occasional writing
• OCCASIONER
  One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.
• OCCASIONALITY
  Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
• OCCASION
  to fall down; ob + cadere to fall. See Chance, and cf. 1. A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident. The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and
• OCCASIONATE
  To occasion. The lowest may occasionate much ill. Dr. H. More.
• INTEMPERANCE
  1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• AERIAL SICKNESS
  A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.
• SEMIOCCASIONALLY
  Once in a while; on rare occasions.
• SEASICKNESS
  The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
• MILK SICKNESS
  A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock , and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting,