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corpulency
corpulency (ˈkɔːpjʊlənsɪ) Also 6–7 -cie. [ad. L. corpulentia: see prec. and -ency.] † 1. Bigness of body; size, bulk. Obs.1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde (1564) 19 b, Of equal corpulencie or bygnesse. 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 597 The soule of a great man is not greater then the soule of ...
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Clerical Medical
spasms" (ulcers, cancer)
Gout
Apoplexy "Paralysis and Determination of Blood to the Head"
Intemperance "drinking ale to excess" "Takes Laudanum"
"Corpulency
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corpulentness
ˈcorpulentness rare. [f. corpulent a. + -ness.] = corpulency: in quot. in sense 3.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. iv. (Tollem. MS.), Celum Empireum is þe firste body, moste symple in kynde, and haþ leste of corpolentnesse.
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Thomas Dutton (physician)
Selected publications
Digestion and Diet Rationally Discussed (1892)
Domestic Hygiene (1894)
Sea-Sickness (1894)
Indigestion, Corpulency and Gout (1895
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corsious
† ˈcorsious, a. Obs. [a. AF. corsious = OF. corsieus, f. cors body, corse.] = corsy, corpulent. Hence † corsiousness.1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xv, Although he were of body corsyous. c 1430 ― Bochas iv. vi. (1554) 104 a, He waxe right fat, and wonder corsious. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 92 Corcyowse or gre...
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Thomas Short (physician)
earliest publications, in 1728, was medical literature on the negative health effects of obesity: In A Discourse concerning the causes and effects of Corpulency
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polysarcia
‖ polysarcia (pɒlɪˈsɑːsɪə) [late L. (Cæl. Aurel., 6th c.), a. Gr. πολυσαρκία fleshiness, f. πολύσαρκος very fleshy, f. πολυ- poly- + σάρξ, σαρκ- flesh.] 1. Path. Excessive growth of flesh (or, loosely, of fat); corpulence, obesity.1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Polysarcia, Corpulency. 1706...
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Charles Warren Greene
Homes and Habits (1886)
Beacon gems for you; or, The philosophy of housekeeping (1888)
American Indians (1888)
Foods for the fat; a treatise on corpulency
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leanness
leanness (ˈliːnnɪs) Also 1 hlǽnnes, -nys, 4 leenes, 4–5 lenesse, 5 lennesse, leynes, 5–6 lenenes(se, 6 leanenesse, leanes, Sc. leinnes. [f. lean a. + -ness.] The condition or quality of being lean; thinness; meagreness; poverty (of land); barrenness; etc.a 1000 in Napier Glosses 192/33 Macie, mid hl...
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Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies
His 1889 book Foods for the Fat: A Treatise on Corpulency urged overweight people to a consult a physician, who would provide psychological support and
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squarely
squarely, adv. (ˈskwɛəlɪ) [f. square a.] 1. So as to be squared (by multiplication).1557 Recorde Whetst. D iij, The other sides beyng multiplied squarely (that is, by them selfes). 1594 Blundevil Exerc. i. (1636) 96 Which Root if you Multiply into it selfe squarely, the Product will be like unto the...
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William Wadd
Cursory Remarks on Corpulence London, 1810, 8vo, issued anonymously; 3rd ed. 1816;
reissued in an enlarged form as: Comments on Corpulency, Lineaments
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wheeze
▪ I. wheeze, n. (hwiːz) [f. next.] 1. An act of wheezing; a whistling sound caused by difficult breathing.1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 477 note, A loud sibilant or dry sonorous rhoncus, corresponding with the loud sighing wheeze, audible by the naked ear. 1848 Dickens Dombey xx, A wheeze very l...
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National Museum of Archaeology, Malta
Given the corpulency of the statues it may be that the cult was tied to a fertility rite.
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calculary
▪ I. † ˈcalculary, n. ? Obs. [same deriv. as next.] Grew's name for a ‘congeries of little stony knots’ in a pear.1674 Grew Anat. Plants vi. §3 The Calculary (most observable in rough-tasted, or Choak-Pears) is a Congeries of little stony Knots. 1677 ― Anat. Fruits ii. §6 Tartareous Grains..in some ...
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