Meanings
- not comparablerarerabid; affected with rabies
Most men are rabiate on some subject; but the stricken of poetry, is a seraphic malady.
1856, George Raymond, Drafts for Acceptance2 more examples
Doubtlessly inspired by Nicander he, or rather someone else whose work is transmitted under his name, wrote a Theriaca (Περί ίοβόλων, έν ὧ χαί περί λυσσόντοςχυνός, 'On poison-injecting animals, including rabiate dogs') and an Alexipharmaca,,,
2014, Floris Overduin, Nicander of Colophon's Theriaca: A Literary Commentary, page 132The virus enters the body as the rabiate animal bites the organism and moves through the neurons towards the central nervous system with a preference for the cerebrum and the cerebellum (centripedal [sic] involvement), and from here they move through the peripheral nerves to infect the salivary glands and other end organs.
2019, Aynur Simsek, Hasan Icen, Metin Gurcay, Akin Kochan, Ozgur Yasar Celik, “Spatial Distribution of Rabies in Wild Animals in East and Southeast Anatolia Regions of Turkey, 2010-2015”, in IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, volume 12, issue 1, series II, page 52
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