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falling-sickness

falling-sickness is the alternative form of falling sickness.

Meaning of falling sickness

Noun

falling sickness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Epilepsy.
    • Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless.
      Brutus. 'T is very like: he hath the falling sickness.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about falling-sickness

What is falling-sickness the alternative form of?
Falling-sickness is the alternative form of falling sickness.

Words near falling-sickness in the dictionary

  1. falling victim
  2. Falling Waters
  3. falling weather
  4. falling-off
  5. falling-out
  6. falling-sickness
  7. fallingly
  8. fallings
  9. fallings out
  10. fallings-out
  11. Fallingwater

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