crapula

Definitions

Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.

countable, literary, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]”

“Perhaps the tonic medicines which have⟳ been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide⟳ the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed.”

“Disorders sometimes happen⟳ to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence.”

“[I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth.”

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