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Definition of Sick person
1. Noun. A person suffering from an illness.
Generic synonyms: Unfortunate, Unfortunate Person
Specialized synonyms: Anorectic, Anorexic, Bulimic, Consumptive, Lunger, Tubercular, Convalescent, Depressive, Diabetic, Dyspeptic, Epileptic, Bleeder, Haemophile, Haemophiliac, Hemophile, Hemophiliac, Incurable, Insomniac, Sleepless Person, Invalid, Shut-in, Lazar, Leper, Lunatic, Madman, Maniac, Manic-depressive, Monomaniac, Narcoleptic, Neurasthenic, Mental Case, Neurotic, Psychoneurotic, Patient, Psycho, Psychotic, Psychotic Person, Rheumatic, Syphilitic, Valetudinarian, Spewer, Vomiter
Derivative terms: Suffer, Suffer, Suffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sick Person
Literary usage of Sick person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"2) leaves the decision of this question to the prudent discretion of the priest,
but St. Liguori (ibid., tertia sent.) thinks that the sick person is bound ..."
2. The rule and exercises of holy dying by Jeremy Taylor (1869)
"V. OF MINISTERING TO THE sick person BY THE SPIRITUAL MAN, AS HE is THE PHYSICIAN
OF SOULS I. TN all cases of receiving J_ confessions of sick men, ..."
3. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1864)
"An Act of Resignation to be said by a sick person in all the evil accidents of
his Sickness. O ETERNAL God, thou hast made me and sustained me, ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"SECTION V. Of ministering to the sick person by the spiritual man, as he is the
physician of souls. 1. In all cases of receiving confessions of sick men, ..."
5. Notes on nursing by Florence Nightingale (1902)
"How often in such visits the sick person has to do the whole conversation, exerting
his own imagination and memory, while you would take the visitor, ..."
6. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"At the time while the chaplain continues repeating the Super egros manus, the
clerk of the closet shall kneel before the sovereign, having the sick person ..."
7. Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not by Florence Nightingale (1860)
"How often in such visits the sick person has to do the whole conversation, exerting
his own imagination and memory, while you would take the visitor, ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"2) leaves the decision of this question to the prudent discretion of the priest,
but St. Liguori (ibid., tertia sent.) thinks that the sick person is bound ..."
9. The rule and exercises of holy dying by Jeremy Taylor (1869)
"V. OF MINISTERING TO THE sick person BY THE SPIRITUAL MAN, AS HE is THE PHYSICIAN
OF SOULS I. TN all cases of receiving J_ confessions of sick men, ..."
10. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1864)
"An Act of Resignation to be said by a sick person in all the evil accidents of
his Sickness. O ETERNAL God, thou hast made me and sustained me, ..."
11. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"SECTION V. Of ministering to the sick person by the spiritual man, as he is the
physician of souls. 1. In all cases of receiving confessions of sick men, ..."
12. Notes on nursing by Florence Nightingale (1902)
"How often in such visits the sick person has to do the whole conversation, exerting
his own imagination and memory, while you would take the visitor, ..."
13. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"At the time while the chaplain continues repeating the Super egros manus, the
clerk of the closet shall kneel before the sovereign, having the sick person ..."
14. Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not by Florence Nightingale (1860)
"How often in such visits the sick person has to do the whole conversation, exerting
his own imagination and memory, while you would take the visitor, ..."
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