sideˈration Now rare.
Also 7–8 syd-.
[ad. L. sīderātio blast, blight, palsy, f. sīderārī: see prec. So F. sidération, † syderation (16th cent.).]
1. Blasting of trees or plants.
| 1623 Cockeram ii. A iv b, A Blasting thereof, Stellation, Syderation. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Syderation, Blasting of Trees with great heat and drought, Tree-plague. 1686 Goad Celest. Bodies iii. i. 383 If God hath ordained Sideration of Plants, or blasting of Fruits, must we accuse the Creation? 1691 Ray Creation (1714) 304 Producing a Mortification or Syderation in the parts of Plants. 1721 Bailey, Sideration, the Blasting of Trees or Plants, with an Eastern Wind or with excessive Heat and Drought. [Hence in Miller Gard. Dict. (1731).] |
2. Sudden paralysis; complete mortification of any part of the body.
| 1612 Cotta Disc. Dang. Pract. Phys. i. vii. 59 The sicke are also sodainly taken..with a senseless trance and generall astonishment or sideration. 1638 A. Read Chirurg. iv. 27 An absolute coldnesse..causeth the sideration or death of the part. 1638 Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 172 This hath been in them a Sideration, the Blasting of some unhappy Influence. 1702 C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. vi. (1852) 575 Rabid animals, which, by a most unaccountable syderation from Heaven, had now neither strength nor sense left 'em to do anything for their own defence. |
3. Path. (See quots.)
| [1788 Med. Comm. II. 182 Sideratio, or Erysipelas of the head and face. 1809 Parr Med. Dict. II. 583 Sideratio,..a sphacelus or a species of erysipelas, vulgarly called a blast.] 1828–32 in Webster (citing Parr). 1849 Craig, Sideration, in Pathology, a name given to erysipelas of the face or scalp, from an idea of its being produced by the influence of the planets. |