nervose

A foot or more high, leaves oblong-lanceolate, the upper usually ovate-lanceolate and sessile by a nervose veined base; pedicels shorter than the acute lobes of the calyx ; the lower lip or the corolla violet or rose-purple and the upper paler to nearly white; the saccate throat very oblique to the true tube, fully as broad as long; gland short.

1879, Volney Rattan, A Popular California Flora, page 91

It belongs only to a higher grade of perfection, or to a nervose condition of the digestive process, to perceive the rationale of the decomposition, or the spiritual conflict, which prevails between the matters, when they are about to separate.

1847, Lorenz Oken, Elements of Physiophilosophy - Volume 10, page 463

It is curious that the gluttons and the hucksters, who sell adulterated goods by day and cant the most leprous cant in the evening, should affect to abhor and despise and shun the consumers of nervose aliments as inferior animals, when it is themselves, the insatiable devourers of beef and pudding and hideous hypocritical slang, who are the inferor animals.

1877 August, 'An individualist', “Food and Growth: a Rhapsody”, in Cope's Tobacco Plant, volume 2, number 89, page 64

In 1859 Moreau laid down the principle, based upon a number of rather doubtful examples, that genius was essentially a nervose, or nerve, affection, his contention being that originality of thought and quickness or preponderance of intellectual faculties were originally much the same thing as madness and idiocy.

1914, John Anderson Richardson, Richardson's Defense of the South, page 474