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Definition of Dipsomaniacal
1. a. Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
Definition of Dipsomaniacal
1. Adjective. pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dipsomaniacal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Dipsomaniacal
1. Of or pertaining to dipsomania. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipsomaniacal
Literary usage of Dipsomaniacal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"If, as is probably true, the abnormal states were the equivalent of epileptic
seizures, the dipsomaniacal attacks were the equivalent of the abnormal states ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1892)
"But- there are instances wherein the violence of dipsomaniacal insanity is
superlative ; and there can be no question as to the injustice of exacting ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... are celebrated by intoxicants to produce artificial excitement. Primitive drinking
was periodic or in modern terms dipsomaniacal, and not the steady ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1878)
"... through the winter, and who, you hope, must be getting the better of those
dipsomaniacal tendencies of which you have strong reason to suspect him. ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)
"These dipsomaniacal attacks are symptoms of disorganized brain cells. These cells
become poisoned at irregular intervals by the bi-products of the ..."
6. Lectures on clinical psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin (1904)
"... states of depression, of dipsomaniacal colouring, appear in combination with
severe attacks of convulsions. ..."
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