▪ I. ˈapoplex arch.
[ad. L. apoplēxis, a. Gr. ἀπόπληξις, variant of ἀποπληξία.]
= apoplexy.
| 1533 Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 46 Immoderate sleep maketh y⊇ body apt unto palseis, apoplexis, falling siknes. 1605 B. Jonson Volpone i. iv. 36 How do's his apoplexe? 1690 Locke Hum. Underst. iii. vi. (ed. 3) 246 An Apoplex [may] leave neither Sense, nor Understanding, no nor Life. 1790 Coleridge Happiness I. 34 Apoplex of heavy head That surely aims his dart of lead. |
b. fig.
| 1688 Dryden Brit. Rediv. 239 And here the sons of God are petrified with woe; An apoplex of grief. |
▪ II. ˈapoplex, v. arch.
[f. prec. n.; chiefly in pa. pple.]
To strike with apoplexy, paralyze, benumb.
| 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 73 Sure, that sense Is apoplex'd. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. iii. 160 Finding her husband..apoplext in all his limbes. Ibid. viii. 403 To apoplex all the vitall spirits. 1813 Byron Let. Wks. 1832 II. 269 If suddenly apoplexed, would he rest in his grave? |