diseased, ppl. a.
(dɪˈziːzd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Affected with disease; in a disordered bodily condition. Now usually of the bodily organs or fluids: In an unhealthy or disordered state, infected.
| 1467 Mann. & Househ. Exp. 173, I hame deshesed in schweche weyse that I may nate ryde norre wel goo. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 42 §4 Diseasid personnes..infected with the pestilence. 1611 Bible John vi. 2 His miracles which hee did on them that were diseased. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 113 The diseased heels of horses. 1842 Tennyson Voyage x, His eyes were dim: But ours he swore were all diseased. 1846 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 68 The most striking changes in the diseased milk are the diminution of the solid constituents..and the extraordinary increase of the salts. |
| absol. 1542–3 Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 8 §1 Surgions..mindinge..nothing the profit or ease of the disesed or pacient. 1667 Milton P.L. xi. 480 A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas'd. |
b. Characterized by disease;
† subject to disease (
quot. 1651); pertaining to or symptomatic of disease; morbid, unhealthy.
| 1574 T. Hill Conject. Weather i, Then shall follow a diseased yeare. 1651 tr. Bacon's Life & Death 9 The Sheep is a diseased Creature; And rarely lives to his full age. 1707 Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch ii. 188 Diseas'd Pulses either exceed, or are deficient in respect of the natural Pulse in Number..Strength, Celerity. 1797 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) p. vii, When a person has become well acquainted with diseased appearances. |
c. fig. In a disordered or depraved condition (of mind, of affairs, etc.); pertaining to such a condition, morbid.
| 1608 T. James Apol. Wyclif 69 The faultes of the diseased Cleargie. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 297 Good my Lord, be cur'd Of this diseas'd Opinion. 1835 Lytton Rienzi i. vi, The times are..diseased. a 1859 Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 104 The divines whose business was to sooth his not less diseased mind. |
Hence
diˈseasedly adv.,
diˈseasedness.
| 1614 T. Adams Devil's Banquet 157 All men [catch] their diseasedness by falling from their Christ. 1672 Baxter in Life J. Alleine (1838) I. 8 He laid not out his zeal diseasedly. 1684 T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 184 That state of indigency, and misery, and diseasedness, which we languish under at present. 1829 Southey in Q. Rev. XLI. 294 A nervous system already diseasedly susceptible. |