paralytically

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"He was paralytically drunk."
"But if it stay not with the Patient, it must be repeated again: For it's no unusual Thing in these Cases, for Glysters to come slip away presently, by reason that the Intestines having their Fibres benumbed, and paralytically relaxed, lose their retentive Faculty."
"But to the top of the House is Mankind, thus paralytically diseased, to be carry'd by the four Evangelists, his Bearers."
"They are paralytically fixed, existing simply as inert conduits which are not capable of acting expulsively on the contents themselves, and only discharge this part of their function in as far as they are acted upon by other contractile agents."
"Once I play the first note of the first song, I'm fine, but before that, I can get paralytically afraid."

Etymology tree English paralytic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English paralytically From paralytic + -ally.