paralytically

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adverb

In a paralytic manner.

“He was paralytically drunk.”

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adverbparalytically (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a paralytic manner.

    He was paralytically drunk.

    4 more examples

    But if it stay not with the Patient, it must be repeated again: For it's no unusual Thing in these Cases, for Glysters to come slip away presently, by reason that the Intestines having their Fibres benumbed, and paralytically relaxed, lose their retentive Faculty.

    1710, Thomas Fuller, Pharmacopœia extemporanea

    But to the top of the House is Mankind, thus paralytically diseased, to be carry'd by the four Evangelists, his Bearers.

    1729, Thomas Woolston, A Discurse on the Miracles of our Saviour in view of present controversy between infidels and apostates

    They are paralytically fixed, existing simply as inert conduits which are not capable of acting expulsively on the contents themselves, and only discharge this part of their function in as far as they are acted upon by other contractile agents.

    1883, William Robertson, A Text-book of the Practice of Equine Medicine, page 518

    Once I play the first note of the first song, I'm fine, but before that, I can get paralytically afraid.

    2014, Emily Spivack, Worn Stories, page 45

Origin

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