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crapula en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɹapjʊlə/

Etymology

From Latin crāpula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”).

Meanings

1. (countable, literary, obsolete, uncountable) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
   • If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […] 1726, Peter Shaw, A New Practice of Physic:
   • [I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 214:
   • Perhaps the tonic medicines which have been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed. 1794, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations. Second American edition:
   • Disorders sometimes happen to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence. 1808, Thomas Topham, A new compendious system on several diseases incident to cattle:

Forms

Relateds

crapulental · crapulous · crapulence · crapulent

Translations (4)

pt ressaca (sickness) · es crápula (sickness) · sv bakfylla (sickness) · fi krapula (sickness)