falling sickness
See also: falling-sickness
English
Noun
falling sickness (uncountable)
- (archaic) Epilepsy.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Blackie and Son Limited (1908), page 31:
- Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless.
- Bru. 'T is very like: he hath the falling sickness.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Blackie and Son Limited (1908), page 31:
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