procatarxis
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“first beginning”).
Noun edit
procatarxis
- (medicine, dated) The kindling of a disease into action; the procatarctic cause.
- 1685, Thomas Willis, The London Practice of Physick:
- a sudden , ſolemn , and invincible cause, without any previous Disposition or Procatarxis
References edit
- “procatarxis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.