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epileptic (adj.)
c. 1600, from French
épileptique
, from Late Latin
epilepticus
, from Greek
epileptikos
, from stem of
epilambanein
"to seize" (see
epilepsy
). Earlier adjective was
epilentic
(late 14c.), from a Greek variant. As a noun from 1650s.
