cardiacle
Middle English
editNoun
editcardiacle
- A pain about the heart.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 312-313:
- [...] But wel I woot, thou doost my herte to erme,
That I almost have caught a cardiacle.- [...] But well I know thou makes mine heart to grieve so,
That I almost have caught a palpitation of the heart.
- [...] But well I know thou makes mine heart to grieve so,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 312-313:
References
edit- “cardiacle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.