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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Capt. Grice, RN -- ad nauseam

Some philosophers teach (e.g Kant in Koenigsburg, modern Russia). Some fight against the Hun in mid-Atlantic! (Mine!)

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Latin "nausea", nausia seasickness, sickness, disgust, loathing < ancient
Greek (Ionic) (Attic nautia) seasickness, sickness, disgust, loathing < ship
(cf NAVE) + - -IA suffix1. Cf. Middle French, French nausée (1495), Italian
nausea (a1468), Spanish (1590), Portuguese (17th cent.).
In forms in final -m after the Latin accusative singular.]

1425 tr. G. de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 27, Signez of
antrace after Henric be signez of e carbuncle augmented..with castyng dovne of
e appetite and nausea, i. wamelyng or brakyng [?c1425 Paris spowynge]. c1450
in J. Norri Names of Sicknesses in Eng. 1400-1550 (1992) 133 Nausea is wille
to caste without effecte for humours in e villys of e stomak at bicomy tou.
1569 R. ANDROSE tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes I. 14 The disease called
Nausea. 1596 P. BARROUGH Method of Phisick (ed. 3) VI. xviii. 374 A
certaine..disposition to vomit, called of the Latines Nausea. 1628 W. FOLKINGHAM Panala Medica 37 Lest the quantity [of the dose] should subvert the ventricle and
cause nauseum or perhaps casting. 1628 W. FOLKINGHAM Panala Medica 81 They..cause
much dolour, nauseam and loathing of meat. 1719 J. QUINCY Lexicon
Physico-medicum (1722) 41 The most grievous Nausea's and Vomitings. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 74 This cold fit is soon accompanied with a loathing
nausea and desire of vomiting. 1836 A. COMBE Physiol. Digestion (ed. 2) I. ii.
32 Abstinence was again enforced and tartar emetic given to excite nausea.
1876 J. S. BRISTOWE Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. II. v. 740 Nausea and sickness,
again, are frequent symptoms of dyspepsia. 1895 H. G. WELLS Time Machine
xiv. 141 The cold..overcame me. I shivered, and a deadly nausea seized me. 1920
D. H. LAWRENCE Women in Love viii. 97 But a sickness, a fearful nausea
gathered possession of Hermione. 1948 D. BALLANTYNE Cunninghams I. xxvii. 135 The
nausea rushes that made his head wham. 2000 Times 4 May I. 21/2 Laburnum, like
wisteria, contains cytisine which causes nausea, vomiting, thirst,
headaches, confusion and if the dose is really massive, paralysis and coma.
1771 T. SMOLLETT Humphry Clinker II. 247 Most of the passengers were seized
with a nausea that produced violent retchings. 1795 Montford Castle II. 101
The dispiriting nausea which attends a first voyage. 1831 J. F. COOPER
Water-witch I. v. 58 Obliged to follow a husband, up and down; among freebooters and dishonest traders; in fair weather and foul; hot and cold; wet and dry;
bilge-water and salt-water, cramps and nausea. 1861 All Year Round 13 July 372
Many of the kidnapped men were in agonies of nausea. 1971 P. BERTON Last Spike
VI. i. 221 They endured the nausea of the long sea journey. 1992 B. UNSWORTH
Sacred Hunger xvi. 112 All-pervading, adding inexpressibly to his nausea, was
the stench of the bilge-water shaken up in the depths of the hold below him
like some excretion of the labouring ship.
1619 W. SCLATER Expos. 1st Epist. Thessalonians To Rdr., sig. A4, The Nausea
of some at home, whom no Sermon pleaseth, longer then it is in hearing. 1663
J. SPENCER Disc. Prodigies (1665) 58 That nausea which the tedious
repetition of things present and familiar creates in the Soul of man. 1782 W. COWPER Flatting Mill 24 For truth is unwelcome..And unless you adorn it, a nausea
follows. 1828 T. CARLYLE Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) I. 161 Sated to nausea as we
have been with the doctrines of Sentimentality. 1866 A. CRUMP Pract. Treat.
Banking ix. 208 The winds of heaven unable to blow over them without nausea
and loathing. 1897 B. STOKER Dracula ii. 19 A horrible feeling of nausea came
over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal. 1915 W. S. MAUGHAM Of
Human Bondage lxv. 330 He was like a snake casting its skin and he looked upon
the old covering with nausea. 1988 Pract. Motorist Jan. 15/4, I get a feeling
of nausea each time I read your plugs for the Advanced Drivers.
1654 E. GAYTON Pleasant Notes Don Quixot III. iii. 82 Stifled with the fumes
and Nauseæ of his filthy Caldron. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 520/2 To escape at
once a painful monotony and a nausea of gewgaws. 1915 T. S. ELIOT Let. 25
Feb. (1988) I. 88, I dread returning to Cambridge, and the nausea of factory
whistles at seven and twelve o'clock. 1996 S. DEANE Reading in Dark (1997) iv.
143 A summer passed in a nausea of light.

1936 Raleigh (N. Carolina) News & Observer 23 Sept. 1 (headline) Reveal Tar
Heel buyers of tear and *nausea gas. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept.
17/1 Soldiers fired nausea gas to drive back a stone-throwing mob..in Belfast.
1995 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 12 May A. 15 Surely, if the agent
felt an irresistible compulsion to pull a trigger, a rubber bullet, sticky
gum or nausea gas would have been a more appropriate response.

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