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Palsied

Definition: Palsied

Palsied

Adjective

1. Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "hands weak and palsied".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "palsied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Palsied

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.

Impotence

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Physical Insensibility

Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

Weakness

Broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Palsied

English words defined with "palsied": Palsical. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Palsied

DomainTitle

Books

  • Communication Variables of Cerebral Palsied and Mentally Retarded Children (reference)

  • Handling the Young Cerebal Palsied Child at Home (reference)

  • Speech regulation of motor acts as used by cerebral palsied children : observational and experimental studies of a key feature of conductive education (reference)

  • The family and the handicapped child; a study of cerebral palsied children in their homes (reference)

  • The young handicapped child: educational guidance for the young cerebral palsied, deaf, blind, and autistic child (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Palsied

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The step was palsied now, that had been foremost in the charge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Palsied

"Palsied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Palsied" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (past participle)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Palsied

Language Translations for "palsied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që dridhet (quaking, quaky, quavery, shivery), i paralizuar (game, paralysed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مشلول (disabled, numb, paralysed, paralytic, paralyzed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

парализиран (paralysed). (various references)

   

Danish

  

patient med cerebral parese (cerebral palsied). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hersenverlamd (cerebral palsied). (various references)

   

French

  

paralysé (paralysed, paralytic). (various references)

   

German

  

gelähmt (crippled, lame, lamed, paralysed, paralytic, paralyzed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παράλυτοσ (numb, paralytic), τρέμων (creepy, shivery, trembly). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משותק (paralysed, paralytic, silenced). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szélütött, bénult (paralysed, spastic). (various references)

   

Italian

  

paralitico (paralytic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alsiedpay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

paralizat (dead), neputincios (helpless, impotent, impuissant, incapable, infirm, limp, nerveless, shiftless, silly, slight), decrepit (decrepit, senile), care tremurã (palpitant, shivery). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

трясущийся (niddle-noddle, quaky, tottery), парализованный (paralysed, paralytic), дрожащий (quaking, quaky, quavery, quivery, shaky, shivery, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vibrant). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oduzet (paralysed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

paralizado (depressed, paralysed, paralyzed), paralítico (paralytic, quadriplegic), tembloroso (flickering, quaky, quavering, quavery, quivering, shaking, shaky, trembling, trembly). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sarsak (a dithering idiot, clumsy, Dickey, dicky, doddering, doddery, jerky, rocky, shaky, tottering, tottery), felçli (apoplectic, apoplectical, paralysed, paralytic), aksayan (failing, halting), aksak (game, gammy, halting, hipshot, interrupted, lame, limping, lopsided). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

тремтячий (faltering, jittery, quaking, quavery, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vacillating), паралізований (paralysed, paralytic, paralyzed, petrified). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Palsied

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

paralytici, paralytico, paralyticos, paralyticum, paralyticus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Palsied

Misspellings

"Palsied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pahsien, Palfium, palised, palisied, Palshid, Pilisuk, plasia, Polskie, Polskiej, polysided. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Palsied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alipeds, elapids, lapides, pleiads.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-s"

-1 letter: aisled, aliped, deasil, dispel, elapid, espial, ideals, ladies, lapsed, lipase, lisped, padles, pedals, plaids, pleads, pleiad, sailed, salpid, sliped, spiled.

-2 letters: aides, ailed, aisle, aside, dales, deals, deils, delis, dials, ideal, ideas, idles, isled, lades, lapis, lapse, lased, leads, leaps, padis, padle, pails, paise, paled, pales, peals, pedal, pilea, piled, piles, plaid, plead, pleas, plied, plies, salep, sapid, sepal, sepia, sidle, siped, slide, slipe, spade, spaed, spail, spale, speil, spied, spiel, spile.

-3 letters: aide, aids, ails, ales, alps, aped, apes, apse, dais, dale, dals, daps, deal, deil, deli, dels, dial, diel, dies, dips, elds, idea, ides, idle, ilea, isle, lade, lads, laid, laps, lase, lead, leap, leas, leis, lids, lied, lies, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, padi, pads, paid, pail, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, peds, pial, pias, pied, pies, pile, plea, pled, plie, sade, sadi, said, sail, sale, salp, seal, sial, side, sild, sipe, slap, sled, slid, slip, spae, sped.

-4 letters: ads, aid, ail, ais, ale, alp, als, ape, asp, dal, dap, del, die, dip, dis, eds, eld, els, ids, lad, lap, las, lea, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, lis, pad, pal, pas, pea, ped, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, sad, sae, sal, sap, sea, sei, sel, sip, spa.

-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, as, de, ed, el, es, id, is, la, li, pa, pe, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-s"
 

+1 letter: displace, helipads, impleads, misplead, palisade, parslied, piebalds, pleiades, sandpile, sepaloid, spadille, spiraled, talipeds.

 

+2 letters: asclepiad, depilates, deprivals, diplegias, dispersal, displaced, displaces, displayed, displease, inclasped, lapidates, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, palinodes, palisaded, palisades, pedaliers, pedipalps, pedlaries, penalised, pinelands, planished, pleadings, polarised, presidial, redisplay, sandpiles, slipcased, spadilles, spiralled, spoliated, stapedial.

 

+3 letters: amplidynes, amplitudes, aneuploids, apologised, asclepiads, bipedalism, candlepins, capsulized, dealership, despicable, despicably, diaphyseal, diplomates, diplophase, dispersals, displanted, displeased, displeases, disposable, disputable, duplicates, episodical, espadrille, espaliered, haploidies, hexaploids, lapidaries, lapidifies, leadership, misapplied, misplanned, misplanted, mispleaded, overplaids, paddlefish, palletised, pallidness, petalodies, philanders, placidness, plaistered, planetoids, platitudes, playfields, polyamides, psalmodies, redisplays, sailplaned, septicidal, sphenoidal, spheroidal, stipulated.

 

+4 letters: acidophiles, anadiploses, audiophiles, bipedalisms, capitalised, cyclopedias, dealerships, depilations, depolarizes, diadelphous, dilapidates, diplomacies, diplophases, disparately, dispensable, displayable, displeasing, displeasure, disposables, disprovable, drosophilae, ellipsoidal, endoplasmic, espadrilles, feldspathic, interpleads, leaderships, lipreadings, maxillipeds, mispleading, palindromes, paradiddles, peccadillos, pedestaling, pediculates, pedophilias, pentaploids, periodicals, placidities, plagiarised, plasticized, polyandries, popularised, predicables, psychedelia, redisplayed, specialised, specialized, spermicidal, supplicated, tetraploids.

 

+5 letters: accomplished, aneuploidies, bipedalities, cyclopaedias, depilatories, depolarizers, depositional, despairingly, despoliation, despotically, dimercaprols, discrepantly, displaceable, displacement, displeasures, disreputable, disreputably, dissipatedly, episodically, haloperidols, hexaploidies, hospitalised, hospitalized, indisputable, kaleidoscope, nucleocapsid, paddlefishes, pallidnesses, paramedicals, peccadilloes, pedestalling, pentlandites, personalised, personalized, philadelphus, philanderers, placidnesses, plantigrades, postcardlike, postdeadline, postmedieval, presidential, pseudopodial, psychedelias, redisplaying, reduplicates, semipalmated, slipstreamed, speedballing, spheroidally, subepidermal, undisputable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Palsied


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 6C 73 69 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    .-..    ...    ..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01101100 01110011 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#108 &#115 &#105 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 006C 0073 0069 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50677885757170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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