paralytic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PARALYT'IC PARALYT'ICAL, adjective Affected with palsy; deprived of the power of muscular motion; sometimes, weak; trembling; subject to an involuntary shaking; as a paralytic arm. 1. Inclined or tending to palsy. PARALYT'IC, noun A person affected with palsy.
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