Usage examples (18)

• But there appears to be no precedent at all for the current outbreak of political ergotism.
• There were signs on Earth -- from 997, the spread of the deadly burning sickness, what we call ergotism.
• Scholars have sought to explain Salem in terms of gender, class, even encephalitis or ergotism -- or downright fakery.
• That's called cacodemono mania (ph), or they have ergotism (ph), a condition in which people believe they will soon burst into flames.