Usage examples (21)

• To insist upon keeping a paretic all his lifetime in such an institution is highly irrational, to say the least.
• On October 22d, he complained of numbness in the left leg, which gradually increased, the leg at the same time becoming paretic, so that the patient required the aid of...
• Why it is that one paretic greets us with the exalted mien of his grandiose delirium, while another spreads about him the gloom of a depressive delirium -- the changes...
• Another general paretic promised to his physician such gifts as an ivory vest with diamond buttons, boasted of his great strength while scarcely able to walk alone, and...