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Saint Vitus's dance
[ vahy-tuh-siz ]
Saint Vitus's dance
/ ˈvaɪtəsɪz /
Word History and Origins
Origin of Saint Vitus's dance1
Example Sentences
Don’t come straggling into the office one morning muttering, “First, gout. Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy. What’s next, apoplexy?”
“Have you got Saint Vitus’s dance, Amy Drew?”
Insanity, epilepsy, delirium, hysteria, Saint Vitus’s dance, and in fact all obstinate disorders for which no specific is known, are invariably ascribed to the influence of demons or sorcerers, and the patient is either declared to be possessed of a devil, or to labour under the disastrous consequences of inumbration by the shadow of an enemy.
They got as much chance with me as a man with Saint Vitus's dance has of landing a trout.
S. Saint Vitus's dance, 240. symptoms of, 241. treatment of, 242.
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