epileptical (epileptikal)

Same as epi leptic. Prescribing it to one who was almost daily a aulted with epileptical fits. Boyle , Works, II. 223. epileptically (ep-i-lep'ti-kal-i), adv . In connection with or in consequence of epilepsy; caused by epilepsy. We must also bear in mind that there are on record many homicides committed by epileptically insane per E. C. Mann, Psychol. Med., p. 483. sons. epileptiform (ep-i-lep'ti-fôrm), a. [=F. épilep tiforme, A man long subject to very limited epileptiform seizures may at length have seizures beginning in the same way, and becoming universal; but these are not epileptic seizures, they are only more severe epileptiform seizures. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 179, epileptogenic (ep-i-lep-tō-jen'ik), a . [As epi leptogen - ous +-ic.] Giving rise to epilepsy or to an epileptic attack. IMG:content-0612.png:[blocks in formation] Begins the play in youth, and epilogues in age. Quarles, Emblems, iv. 13. epiloguize (ep'i-log-īz), v. [Also epiloguise ; epilogue + -ize. Cf. epilogize .] Same as epilo gize. The dances ended, the spirit epiloguises . Stage Direction in Milton's Comus. epiloguizer (ep'i-log-izer), n. One who epiloguizes; a writer or speaker of epilogues. [Rare.] Go to, old lad, 'tis true that thou art wiser; Thou art not framed for an epiloguizer . Hoadley . Epimachine (ep"i-ma-ki'nē), n. pl. [NL., Epimachinæ or tenuirostral birds, typified by the genus Epi mach us; the plume-birds. They resemble the true birds of Paradise, or Para dis eine, in the exceeding luxuriance and brilliancy of their plumage. (a) In most arrangements the Epimachine have been referred to the family of hoopoes, Upupidæ, or closely a ociated with the Promeropide. G. R. Gray (1869) constitutes the group by the genera Ptilorhis, Craspedophora, Epimachus, Se leucides, Semi opter a, and Falculia, some of which genera are now referred to the Paradiseince. The group thus constituted should be abolished. (b) In later arrange ments the Epimachinæ are made one of two subfamilies of Paradiseidæ, containing the slender-billed forms repre sented by four genera, Epimachus, Drepanornis, Seleu cides, and Ptilorhis.