Sickly — Defs

01 a. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.

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Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
“This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.” — Shak.
2.
Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
3.
Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
“The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.” — Dryden.

“Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.” — Keble.
4.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

02 adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.

1.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
“My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.” — Chaucer.

03 v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

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To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.[R.]
“Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.” — Shak.

“Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.” — Jeffrey.