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Rheumatick

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Rheúmatick. adj. [ῥευματικος; from rheum.] Proceeding from rheum or a peccant watry humour.

The moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatick diseases do abound. Shakesp.

The blood taken away looked very sizy or rheumatick. Floy.

Sources: Floyer, John (18) · Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (28)

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