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Definition of Hysteric
1. Adjective. Characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria. "Hysterical amnesia"
2. Noun. A person suffering from hysteria.
Definition of Hysteric
1. a. Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful.
Definition of Hysteric
1. Adjective. hysterical ¹
2. Noun. A hysterical person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hysteric
1. one who is subject to fits of hysteria [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hysteric
Literary usage of Hysteric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"One may be inclined to add to these symptoms, the hysteric condition ; yet, though
such condition is present in many cases, it is in others quite absent, ..."
2. A Treatise on diseases of the joints by Richard Barwell (1881)
"The hysteric Paroxysm, or fit, is apt to come on under any excitement ... Again,
prostitutes are peculiarly hable to the hysteric tit. ..."
3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1863)
"Thus the unhappy sufferer dragged on a painful life until 1834, when the hysteric
cough came back, and was again attacked by repeated blisters. ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1835)
"She had for years been a frequent sufferer from hysteric attacks : on the present
... An attendant of the hysteric diathesis, which I mention by the war, ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1863)
"A MODEL hysteric. By ROBERT ELLIS, Esq., Obstetric Surgeon to the Chelsea and
Belgrave Dispensary. I have at length succeeded in permanently curing one of ..."
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