apoplectic, apoplectick

& s. [In Fr. apoplectique; Sp., Port., & Ital. apo pletico; Lat. apoplectic us; Gr. ἀποπληκτικός ( apoplēktikos ).] A. As adjective : Relating to apoplexy. "Soon after he had risen from table, an apoplectic stroke deprived him of of speech and sensation."- Macau lay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xvii. IMG:content-0621.png:[blocks in formation] apoplexy. "Rasis, the Arabick physician, hath left it written as I have it from Quistorpius, that it was ordained by a law, that no apoplecacks, who foamed about the mouth, should be buried till after seventy-two hours." -Knatchbull: Tr ., p. 77.