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qualmish

qualmish:

I. Of persons:

1. fastīdĭōsus: Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 15: cf. "Careless and qualmish, with a yawning face" (Dryden): and expr. by part.: cf. fastidiens stomachus, Sen. Ep. 2.

2. nausĕābundus, Sen. Ep. 108, fin.: subs. nausĕātor, m.: id. Ep. 53.

3. crūdus (q. fr. indigestion: esp. as the consequence of excess): Hor. S. 3, 5, 49: who feeling q. next day gorge themselves again, qui crudi postridie se rursus ingurgitent, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23: compar. crudior, id. Clu. 60, 128. To be q. at, fastīdĭo, īvi or ĭi, ĭtum, 4: omnia f., Hor. S. 1, 2, 115: olus, id. Ep. 1, 17, 15: cactos in cibis, Plin, 21, 16, 57: so "I am q. at the smell of leek," (Shaksp.), *porri odorem fastidio: sometimes nausĕo, 1 (prop. to be sick): if he is q. without being sick, si sine vomitu nauseavit, Cels. 1, 3: Fig. (both in same piece), tu, qui hoc jocorum legere fastidis genus, Phaedr. 4, 6, init.: qui consulto nauseant (make it their business to be q.), id. ib. fin.: v. SQUEAMISH.

II. Of things, causing sickness or disgust: fastidiendus: a q. smell, euphorbiae sucus fastidiendum odorem habet, Plin. 25, 7, 38: fastīdĭōsus: nausĕōsus: nausĕābĭlis.

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