Hysteria

his-te'i-T-a, h. (Med.) A nervous affection, manifested by alternate fits of laughing and crying, or temporary deliiuin, with a sensation of strangulation. — Hyster'ic, -ter'ik, -ical, a. Of, or pert, to, affected, or troubled with, hysterics; convulsive; fit ful. Hysteron-proteron, his'te-ron-prote-ron, n. (Rhet.) A figure in which the wo d that i-ho ild follow comes first: an inversion of logic il o der, in which the conclusion is put beiore the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence. fare; end, eve, tCrm; lu, Ice; Sdd, tone, Dr.; 187 I. I, i, the 9th letter of the Eng. alphabet, has 2 principal sounds, — the long sound, as in pine., fine, ice; and the short, as in pin, fin, gift. I and J were iormerly regarded as the same character, and in English dictionaries were long cla ed together. I, i, /iron. [po . my or mine; oy'ectire me; pl.,nom. we; po . our or ours; oty. us.] The nominative case of the pronoun of the rirst person, — the word by which a speaker or writer denotes himself. 199