ailment
(ˈeɪlmənt)
[f. ail v. + -ment added to an Eng. vb.]
The fact of ailing; bodily or mental indisposition; disorder, sickness.
| 1706 Phillips, Ailment, a light disorder or indisposition of the body. 1710 Philips Pastorals ii. 24 For much it may relieve thy Woe To let a Friend thy inward Ailment know. 1741 Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxvi. 279 Taken with slight stomach ailments. 1834 H. Martineau Farrers iii. 37, I know his ailments to be from an uneasy mind. |