Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Marasmus; emaciation.
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- noun archaic, medicine
Emaciation ;atrophy .
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Examples
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* Post ignem aetheria domo Subductum, macies et nova febrium Terris incubuit cohors; Semotique prius tarda necessitas Leti corripuit gradum: [1076] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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In his monograph, entitled _Potus Chocolati_, he recommends it in all diseases of general weakness, macies, low spirits, and in hypochondrial complaints, and what since his time have been termed nervous diseases.
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There is price control in both hospitals and phar - macies.
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It was the singular felicity of his early school-inti - macies, that they were permanent; and of his play - mates in the Forbery, George Vansittart, Esq.M. P. for Berkshire, and Charles Fanshawe, Esq.
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In 1767 his office became merged in a newly created Board of Customs for North America, of which he was one of the five Commissioners; but as his colleagues were friends of Bernard, while his own inti - macies were with the popular party, there ensued much XVI PREFACE. friction, and in the autumn of 1770 Temple was super - seded, probably by the influence of Bernard, who had returned to England.
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formosae medicas applicuisse manus. effice ne macies pallentis occupet artus, 5
To Phoebus: A Prayer in Sickness Sulpicia 1912
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Already she had arranged the very words of her answers to these, and de - termined the degrees and shades of her inti - macies with those; already had she settled — "Tq whom to nod, whom take into her coach*
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