arch. [ad. L. apoplēxis, a. Gr. ἀπόπληξις, variant of ἀποπληξία.] = APOPLEXY.

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1533.  Elyot, Cast. Helth (1541), 46. Immoderate sleep maketh ye body apt unto palseis, apoplexis, falling siknes.

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1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, I. iv. 36. How do’s his apoplexe?

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1690.  Locke, Hum. Underst., III. vi. (ed. 3), 246. An Apoplex [may] leave neither Sense, nor Understanding, no nor Life.

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1790.  Coleridge, Happiness, I. 34. Apoplex of heavy head That surely aims his dart of lead.

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1688.  Dryden, Brit. Rediv., 239. And here the sons of God are petrified with woe; An apoplex of grief.

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