epileptic

• epileptick (obsolete)

From Ancient Greek ἐπιληπτικός (epilēptikós).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk/

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• Hyphenation: epi‧lep‧tic

epileptic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to epilepsy.
   • 1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages‎^[1]:

     The children die off in vast numbers: those pale roses are all nerves. Hence, will presently burst forth the epileptic dances of the fourteenth century.

2. Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).

epileptic (plural epileptics)

1. A person who has epilepsy.
   • 1976 December 25, “Canada's Gay Ban”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2:

     The present Immigration Act on the books bars entry to Canada to homosexuals, prostitutes, epileptics, and those said to be "living off the avails of homosexualism or prostitution."

2. (archaic) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.

   Synonym: antiepileptic

Borrowed from French épileptique, from Latin epilepticus.

epileptic m or n (feminine singular epileptică, masculine plural epileptici, feminine and neuter plural epileptice)

1. epileptic