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Word Meanings - PLEURODYNIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

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  • SIMULATE
    Feigned; pretended. Bale. (more info) akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar,
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • PLEURISY
    An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed which is used as a remedy
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • SIMULATOR
    One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • AFFECTIONATE
    1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
  • PAINFUL
    1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
  • AFFECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
  • RHEUMATISMOID
    Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.
  • AFFECTIONATENESS
    The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
  • SIMULATORY
    Simulated, or capable of being simulated. Bp. Hall.
  • AFFECTIONATELY
    With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
  • RHEUMATISM
    A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart. Inflammatory rheumatism , acute rheumatism attended with
  • SIMULATION
    The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true. Syn. -- Counterfeiting; feint; pretense.
  • RHEUMATISMAL
    Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
  • ASSIMULATION
    Assimilation. Bacon.
  • DISSIMULATION
    The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he
  • MISAFFECTION
    An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
  • DISSIMULATE
    Feigning; simulating; pretending. Henryson.
  • DISAFFECTIONATE
    Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
  • ASSIMULATE
    1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. Blount. 2. To assimilate. Sir M. Hale.
  • DISAFFECTION
    1. State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

 

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