apoplexy
Noun
Meaning
Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
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. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
He died of apoplexy about 20 January 1664.sfn Character assessment As a religious writer Ambrose has a vividness and freshness of imagination possessed by scarcely any of the Puritan Nonconformists.
Bartholomeus (Ptolemy) of Lucca says, subito factus apoplecticus, sine loquela moritur ('suddenly stricken with apoplexy, he died without speaking').
Both of Frances’ brothers died in World War I and her father succumbed to apoplexy shortly thereafter.
The narrator observes: “Whether he did indeed pass there by that poor ghost’s incantation, or whether he was stricken suddenly by apoplexy in the midst of an idle tale – as the coroner’s jury would have us believe – is no matter for my judging.”