† paralysie Obs.
Also 4 -asie, 5 -ise, -isy, -ysye, per-, 5–7 paralisie.
[a. F. paralysie, in 13th c. -isie (Hatz.-Darm.), repr. a L. type *paralysia for paralysis. Hence the reduced form palsy.]
= paralysis.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 195 And so senewis..weren confortid..and paralasie was put awey. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 339 Criste did heale a man hauenge the peralisy. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 428 b/1, xiii contractes or fylled wyth paralysye were by the same restoryd in good helthe. 1581 N. Burne Disput. in Cath. Tractates 165 Ane young man, and young voman..had fallin in ane paralysie and trimbling of al thair membris. 1597 Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 292 Paralisie..is a mollification, relaxation, or resolution of the nerues, with privation of the mooving. |