nervous
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nervous englanniksi
''Of sinews and tendons.''
Full of sinews. (defdate)
(senseid) Having strong or prominent sinews; sinewy, muscular. (defdate)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Dodsley|Robert Dodsley(nb...)|year=1747|page=83|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015057099940;view=1up;seq=123|oclc=53482211|passage=There is nothing in marble equal to the Venus de' Medici|Venus of Medici, for ſoftneſs and tenderneſs; as there is nothing ſo ſtrong and nervous, as the Hercules|Hercules Farneſe.
Of a piece of writing, literary style etc.: forceful, powerful. (defdate)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Tho. Roycroft for Thomas Dicas(nb...)|year=1663|section=title page|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/fortescutusillus00wateuoft/page/n8|oclc=830342279|passage=Fortescutus illustratus, or a commentary on that nervous treatise ''De Laudibus Legum Angliæ'' (..) title
{{quote-text|en|year=1788|author=Frances Burney|title=Journals & Letters|page=264|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2001
''Of nerves.''
Supplied with nerves; innervated. (defdate)
(senseid)Affecting or involving the nerves or system. (defdate)
(quote-book) (nb...)|location=London|publisher=Strahan (publisher)|George Strahan(nb...); Bath, Somerset: James Leake|year=1733|section=part I|pages=14–15|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=O7q8qZkvFYUC&pg=PA14|oclc=4350595|passage=All Nervous Diſtempers whatſoever, from Yawning and Stretching, up to a mortal Fit of an Apoplexy, ſeems to me to be but one continued Diſorder, or the ſeveral Steps or Degrees of it, ariſing from a Relaxation or Weakneſs, and the want of a ſufficient Force and Elaſticity in the Solids in general, and the ''Nerves'' in particular, in Proportion to the Reſiſtance of the Fluids, in order to carry on the Circulation, remove Obſtructions, carry off the Recrements, and make the Secretions.
(quote-journal) ''of the General Dispensary in'' London'': For Part of the Years 1773 and 1774.'' By (w), M.D. F.R.S. and A.S.S. and Physician to the General Dispensary. 8vo. Dilly.|editor=Sylvanus Urban (w)|magazine=The Gentleman's Magazine|location=London|publisher=(nb...) David Henry, and sold by Newbery (publisher)|Francis Newbery(nb...)|month=September|year=1774|volume=XLIV|page=432|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA432|column=2|oclc=192374019|passage=Elizabeth Moſs, a girl of about 15 years of age, was attacked, in December, 1773, with a ſlow nervous fever, during the courſe of which ſhe had very little ſleep; (..)
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(senseid) Nervose. (defdate)
(RQ:Miller Gardeners Dictionary) It hath a knobbed tuberoſe Root: The Leaves are long and nervous: (..)
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Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried. (defdate)
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(quote-book)|title=Westward Hoe for Avalon in the New-found-land: As described by Captain Richard Whitbourne, of Exmouth, Devon, 1622|location=London|publisher=Low|Sampson Low, Son, and Marston,(nb...); Press|Field and Tuer,(nb...)|year=1870|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=O74NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA25|oclc=1084234372|passage=Various harbours fit to receive settlers are now enumerated by the author; and as for the cold, of which some, through report, entertained a nervous dread, he invites his readers to reflect on "the great colde that is at times in Muſcouia, Sweidon, Norway, Spruceland, Poland, Denmarke, and other Eaſterne and Northerne parts of the world, where the people liue well and grow rich;" (..)
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=The University Society|year=1915|volume=1|page=331|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=u19bL4saoxYC&pg=PA331|column=1|oclc=1034772803|passage="My baby is a perfect bundle of nerves," said one mother to another. "She is so sensitive, she starts at the slightest sound. She sleeps only a few minutes at a time, and has to be walked or rocked to get her off again. She won't go to strangers, and I am a nervous wreck taking care of her."
Composed of or incorporating nerves or tendons.