dropsical

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Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

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Sometimes the swelling is diffuse, with a dropsical or erysipelatoid aspect, and crackles like parchment when handled.

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Then follows a paragraph from the sermon, dropsical with dullness; and here the article ends.

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But the attempt was fruitless: he succeeded no better in curing a dropsical person that chanced to be in the house of a pharisee who gave the Saviour a dinner.

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He was seized with a dropsical complaint in the autumn of 1835, and died, after some days of insensibility, "with as little pain as he ever fell asleep in his gray plaid upon the hillside."

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