Crapula

Quick meaning: Crapula is a noun meaning (obsolete or literary) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.

Meaning

(obsolete or literary) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.

Example Sentences

[I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth.

Disorders sometimes happen to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence.

Perhaps the tonic medicines which have been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed.

If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]

Word Forms

• crapulas

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