palsying, ppl. a.
(ˈpɔːlzɪɪŋ)
[f. prec. + ing2.]
That palsies or paralyses; paralysing.
| 1803 Miss Porter Thaddeus (1826) III. xii. 260 Thaddeus gazed at him with a palsying uncertainty in his heart. 1898 G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 47 On fields where palsying Pythic laurels grow. |
b. Becoming palsied or paralysed.
| 1834 Whittier Mogg Megone 171 Until the wizard's curses hung Suspended on his palsying tongue. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley x. 152 The heaviness of a broken spirit, and of pining and palsying faculties. |