lethargie

English

Noun

lethargie (countable and uncountable, plural lethargies)

1. Obsolete spelling of lethargy.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:

     This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie, a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.

   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:

     […] firſt, becauſe inſenſible diſeaſes are in themſelues moſt deſperate, as the Lethargie, dead palſie, apoplexie.

   • 1707, Hero Sibersma, “Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, Explained and Applyed”, in The Glory of God Most Brightly Maniſested at the Danube, Shining Forth in Like ſplendour at Ramellies & Barcelona, and no leſs conſpicuous at Turin; In ſeveral Moſt ſignal Victories Obtained by the Confœderates over the Arms of the French King. In Perpetual Remembrance Thereof in Three Sermons Upon ſeveral Texts of Scripture opened and applied, The Seventh Sermon, page 72:

     Or that a Dead Palſie, or Lethargie ſhall not ſeaze upon thee, and put thee paſt Repentance, or perhaps a burning Fever, or a Frenzy?