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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, complete insensibility, which no stimulus can remove; the last degree of coma.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

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  • noun medicine coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek κάρος (karos, "deep sleep") .

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Examples

  • Book 1, 31, line 13, 'Dis carus ipsis' — 'dear to heaven'.

    Letter 178 2009

  • They made this machine called a cara ... carus ... a round thing that plays really loud music and has statues of animals that go up and down and around in circles.

    Stalling 2010

  • Gr. καρωτίδ-ες, f. καρούν ‘to plunge into deep sleep, to stupefy', because compression of these arteries is said to produce carus or stupor.

    languagehat.com: SLEEPY CAROTID. 2005

  • Ludovico di Varthema — the vir Deo carus, be it remarked, of the learned and laical Julius Caesar Scaliger:

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • They made this machine called a cara ... carus ... a round thing that plays really loud music and has statues of animals that go up and down and around in circles.

    Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

  • Sed Hiempsal in oppido Thirmida forte ejus domo utebatur, qui proximus lictor [70] Jugurthae carus acceptusque ei semper fuerat; quem ille casu ministrum oblatum promissis onerat impellitque, uti tamquam suam visens domum eat, portarum claves adulterinas [71] paret

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Scipionis, qui tum Romanis imperator erat, [47] et morem hostium cognovit, multo labore multaque cura, praeterea modestissime parendo et saepe obviam eundo periculis in tantam claritudinem brevi pervenerat, ut nostris vehementer carus, Numantinis maximo terrori esset.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • "_Apelles fuit carus Alexandro propter comitate. _"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 Various

  • Metellus interea Romam profectus contra spem [479] suam laetissimis animis excipitur, plebi patribusque, postquam invidia decesserat, juxta carus.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Nobis ob merita sua carus est; ut idem senatui et populo Romano sit, summa ope nitemur.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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