Crapula
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking. countable, literary, obsolete, uncountable
"If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]"
Example
More examples"If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]"
Etymology
From Latin crāpula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”).
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