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Definition of Erethic
1. erethism [adj] - See also: erethism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Erethic
Literary usage of Erethic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatment of Internal Diseases: For Physicians and Students by Norbert Ortner, Nathaniel Bowditch Potter (1913)
"In an erethic Diathesis—In a Torpid Diathesis.—Among these articles of diet, the
choice must depend upon which type of the scrofulous diathesis we are ..."
2. Studies in the Psychology of Intermperance by George Everett Partridge (1912)
"Work normally takes up in part the capacities and cravings for erethic and excited
states and directs energy in a more even flow, but when control is ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"... is obscured in the first by the fact that it may affect either the active
functions or those of inhibition, and give rise to a torpid oran erethic form. ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"erethic states in general, very likely physiologically akin to those of ...
are probably connected with the erethic or erectile function of circulation, ..."
5. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1852)
"The erethic form calls for the least interference—nature needs only to be guided
carefully—-whilst the inflammatory form requires ..."
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