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Webster 1913 Edition


Palsied

Pal′sied

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Adj.
Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

Webster 1828 Edition


Palsied

PAL'SIED

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Adj.
[from palsy.] Affected with palsy.

Definition 2024


palsied

palsied

English

Adjective

palsied (comparative more palsied, superlative most palsied)

  1. Afflicted with palsy.
  2. Trembling as if afflicted with palsy.
    • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 16, page 180, ¶ 9
      [“]You had another of your vacillating consultations with your councillors. Fine advisers.” With infinite scorn, “A herd of palsied purblind idiots hugging their sterile profits close to their sunken chests in the face of my father’s displeasure.”

Verb

palsied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of palsy

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