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epileptic

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1. epileptic - Noun

2. epileptic - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

One affected with epilepsy.

A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.

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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic. Lionel Blue

From this patient, and from others like her, I have learnt that seemingly epileptic reactions in adolescents can indicate the latter's capacity to step out of time. In such cases the apparent epileptic tendency disappears as the patient matures. Arthur Guirdham

Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstasy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face. Thomas Mann

It was the most portentous mission since Saul of Tarsus has suffered an epileptic seizure and called it Christianity. James K. Morrow

epileptic seizure Source: Internet

An investigation, ordered by Godunov and carried out by Prince Vasiliy Shuysky, determines that the Tsarevich, while playing with a knife, had an epileptic seizure, fell, and died from a self-inflicted wound to the throat. Source: Internet

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