Meanings
- not comparableApproaching the condition of epilepsy.
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And then there was young Tom's wife Mag née Sharpe aged forty-one years, greatly handicapped in her house and outdoor activity by subepileptic seizures of monthly incidence, during which she rolled foaming on the floor, or on the yard, or on the vegetable patch, or on the river's brim, and seldom failed to damage herself in one way or another, […]
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
Origin
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