How To Use Afflicted In A Sentence

We like to use the word afflicted or, technical term, demonized. NPR Topics: News
Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist. The Bontoc Igorot
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
We've discovered that another hive is afflicted with a parasitic mite with the terrifying name Varroa destructor Next week we plan to treat them with formic acid, an organic chemical control. Dave Snyder: Farm Report: Starting The Year From Seed
Wizard Apprentice Nicodemus had thought to be the prophesied Halcyon, but is afflicted with cacography, which stuns his growth as a magician. REVIEW: Spellwright by Blake Charlton

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At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
Enough time had now elapsed since our last newly afflicted patient to conclude that the epidemic was over. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
Severe drought has afflicted the countryside.
With that sternness which is admissible only to the afflicted, I have denied myself even the consolation of your visits. My Novel — Volume 07
An early and telltale sign of the disease is a severe runny nose and often a custardlike discharge that eventually encrusts the afflicted animal's muzzle.
We'd rather believe that health care is all about healing the sick, helping the infirm and comforting the afflicted.
-- But I had the impression that the author of the Spectator was afflicted with a dropsy, or some such inflated malady, to which persons of sedentary and bibacious habits are liable. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Severe drought has afflicted the region.
The cold and rain afflicted much of Europe and led to widespread famine and disease. Times, Sunday Times
That is, the church of Christ founded in humility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and contemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair and beautiful. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
As if life isn't enough of a curse, I was afflicted with Tourette Syndrome.
People opening the crates were afflicted by a 10-minute debuff during which they could be cured by a Paladin, else they would turn into a zombie. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Speaking of zombies
They sometimes afflicted people with fits or staggers or palsies for transgressions such as emptying a bucket of foul water in the wrong place. Wildfire
The village is sheltered by gentle hills and seems immune from much of the washout summer that has afflicted Britain. Times, Sunday Times
The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
It was a view echoed in Britain not so long ago by those who spoke of the ‘cycle of deprivation’ which afflicted the poor and the working class.
I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relations to the afflicted children, to know what their distempered friends ail.
For those afflicted with the notion that national politics is on the level and two-dimensional, the following yarn is logical.
Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
This is the face of a rare genetic disease called epidermolysis bullosa, or EB - and researchers believe they have found a treatment that will ease the suffering of those afflicted and help prolong their lives. Canadian Online Health News
Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted Revelations of Divine Love
All are afflicted with a rise in overcrowded classrooms, teacher layoffs, and the other crises that accompany financial cutbacks.
The Kaisha Society, founded in 1987 to assist the then-few gaijin who work with Japanese companies, is expanding its focus to include assistance to needy Japanese youngsters who have been afflicted with cancer.
The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Cats afflicted with hyperesthesia and intense skin allergies may exhibit symptoms elicited by even the softest touch, including strange skin ripples or seizurelike episodes of frantic racing, panic, or biting at the air. The Last Chance Dog
He suggests that Unitarian Universalism is not so much afflicted with its own orthodoxy or even "orthopraxy" a favorite neologism among seminarians, but that it is tilting heavily toward "orthopatheia", a fixation on feeling the right things. Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
Many are afflicted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression.
In Jakarta, the city worst hit by this epidemic, over 6,200 people have been afflicted by the disease and 50 of them have died.
Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.
Thou hast compelled me to forespeak, as well deliverance to the afflicted, as destruction to certain inobedient, the performance whereof, not I alone, but the very blind world has already seen. John Knox
Robert F, Kennedy suffers from a vocal disorder known as spasmodic dysphonia. 15,5500 people in this country are afflicted with the condition. Firedoglake » Good Governance Is More Than CYA…
Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades.
Let's get to another e-mail from Mike in New York, who wants to know, "Is there any hope for those who are afflicted with a condition known as alopecia areata? CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2004
People so afflicted behave as if controlled from outside themselves. TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome. Revelations of Divine Love
Johnny, in fact, had been born to the noise, moist air and flying lint of the mill, and had coughed from the day of his birth, afflicted with the lung disease that has invalided his mother. “I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
The 2 afflicted trematodes came from the same shark.
Those afflicted by this syndrome rationalize their cold-heartedness to themselves by "externalization" (finding outside enemies to blame for their failures) and "splitting" (attempting to hide something in their background that they are ashamed of). The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
What has had the most profound impact on the gradual erosion of England's expectations over the past few months is the cruelly high number of injuries which have afflicted the squad.
But here also he was afflicted in this his sorrow: of stich con - solation this his day of suffering bereaved him too. Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ...
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
The board, no less afflicted than the fans, become jittery. Times, Sunday Times
Dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart disease found in humans, has afflicted the pygmy sperm whale and the dwarf sperm whale.
Local government services, afflicted by heavy cut-backs, have also been characterized by increasing politicization.
Taking heart from this sign, a sign of safe passage, he remains in afflicted London and sets about writing reports. Nobel Lecture - Literature 2003
This is how coenobitism grew out of eremitism not only in Calabria, but in every part of the world which has been afflicted with these eccentrics. Old Calabria
Notwithstanding this weak invention, Italy was still afflicted, Rome was again besieged, and the suburb of Classe, only three miles from Ravenna, was pillaged and occupied by the troops of a simple duke of Spoleto. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This helps to explain why, for example, when a calamity afflicted an entire region composed of people belonging to a common clan, all propitiatory religio-ritual ceremonies were directed to the founding ancestress. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
The first of these can be seen simply as a misfortune: Unity was an afflicted person and what could the family do but endure her affliction. Times, Sunday Times
A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden.
Sultan's Prime Minister, and Sultan Tattarassa, of Parágua Island, the latter afflicted with _locomotor ataxy_, came in, saluted us all, and took seats. The Philippine Islands
Then he wrote War Wolf, a satire in which a returning veteran afflicted with dioxin poisoning becomes a vengeful Communist werewolf. ABSOLUTE ZERO
People so afflicted behave as if controlled from outside themselves. TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
He was afflicted with a psychotic disorder called zoanthropy, and was reduced to acting like a brute beast of the field.
Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt.
It found no cardiac benefit in those already somewhat afflicted by heart problems.
That is the vice is so entrenched, so enrooted that the person afflicted does not feel sick anymore. Slimy Love. Racism as a Private Hell.
He's badly afflicted with a skin disorder.
At least two rounds of antibiotics and decolonization did not break the pattern, and there was no way to determine whether she was afflicted with a persistent bug, or being recontaminated by someone else. SUPERBUG
River floods are respecters of neither wealth nor status, and both developed and developing countries have been severely afflicted in recent years, across every continent.
And afflicted people will tacitly struggle against such connotations until the spectrum of acceptance broadens and mental impediments are no longer considered disabilities, but respected facts of life.
They continued free from the hallucinations for two years, when first the mother, and then gradually all the other members of the family, again became afflicted with demonomania and were again sent to the asylum, when, after a residence therein of five months, they were all sufficiently cured to return home. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war.
She has been much afflicted by this sad news.
All of us afflicted by landlords merely vow to hate them without mercy for the entire day.
In averring that his wound will not heal — I will never be so protected and I will never be so loved, he seems to mourn — Davies forces his audience to recognize that they are similarly afflicted. Intimate History
And because thou rescuest people from difficulties whether when they are afflicted in the wilderness or sinking in the great ocean, it is for this that thou art called Durga [10] by all. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
Some anthropologists dismissed the specimens as simply showing evidence of a miserable community afflicted by microcephaly, Laron syndrome, cretinism or other ailments that might produce similar physical features. Bones That Tell a Tale
She looks so frail, so delicate, and surely she is also what we call afflicted, peculiar. Ringfield A Novel
Wolf's previous books were afflicted with their own share of self-absorption and ‘eclectic’ musings.
Unfortunately it get direct sunlight, and is afflicted with algae.
As everyone recognises, the rebuilding of New Orleans and the rest of the afflicted Gulf region will be an epic political dogfight.
The sick bees exhibited genetic damage that could account for the die-off, and that damage indicated that they might be afflicted with multiple viruses simultaneously.
He must learn to relax more, not be racked by the tortured tenseness that had afflicted him for the past weeks.
Were it not a bad time for a bibliopolists, bibliomaniacs, bibliographers, and bibliotheques which hinder bibliolatry, he would have given them in a bumper, and not drop by drop as if he were afflicted with dysury of the brain. Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
These paradoxes often seem bewildering to those not afflicted with the football disease. Times, Sunday Times
The muscles can be afflicted by esoteric diseases such as myasthenia gravis. Times, Sunday Times
The others endeavoured to restore the afflicted Fairy, but, though still alive, she was in some kind of cataleptic condition which was beyond the ordinary remedies. In Brief Authority
However, we made up for it now by an outburst of indignation and resentment, especially violent on my part; whereupon, the sage Allie turned my own moral lecture, so lately delivered, upon myself, recalling my exhortations to the effect that we should be patient and forgiving with one so sorely afflicted as Matty Blair. Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
The afflicted can be neglected and malnourished, and depression often sets in.
The patient upon whom he performed his now celebrated operation was afflicted with a popliteal aneurism -- that is, the aneurism was located on the large popliteal artery just behind the knee-joint. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
Then, as if to illustrate her arrival to any so afflicted, the Pegasus's foghorn blared out with one long deep bass blast. LET NOT THE DEEP
Yet, as Cassy Mavor looked out upon the exquisite beauty of the scene, upon the splendid outspanning of the sun along the hills, the deep plangent blue of the sky and the thrilling light, she saw a world in agony and she heard the moans of the afflicted. Northern Lights
Also in the water were strange vessels, with no masts or sails, built of gunmetal-gray metals that seemed impervious to the rust that had afflicted the dock facilities.
One of the effects you mention is the so-called “omphalos syndrome” that afflicted both Rome and Washington, D.C., causing each city to regard itself as the center of the world and in charge of the world agenda. As the Romans Did
These minor debacles are just symptoms of a larger ailment, one that has afflicted over a century's worth of politicians on every level and for which there is no end in sight.
The kohen (member of the priestly class) was usually entrusted with the purification of individuals so afflicted, but Aaron was invalidated in this case, because he was a relative of Miriam. Miriam: Midrash and Aggadah.
Women who are pregnant with girls may indeed experience more nausea, for example: several large investigations have found that women afflicted with severe morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum, in the first trimester are more likely to be carrying a female fetus. Origins
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry ? let him sing psalms.
Clytemnestra's tomb a mingled cup of honey, milk, and frothing wine; then stand upon the heaped-up grave, and proclaim therefrom, "Helen, thy sister, sends thee these libations as her gift, fearing herself to approach thy tomb from terror of the Argive mob"; and bid her harbour kindly thoughts towards me and thee and my husband; towards these two wretched sufferers, too, whom Heaven hath afflicted. Orestes
Two only of the vagrant tribe the boy dislikes, the colporteur and the travelling Spiritualist -- two cold, shabby, sniffling beings, each wrapped in a shawl and each driving an old horse afflicted with poll-evil. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
For those afflicted with the notion that national politics is on the level and two-dimensional, the following yarn is logical.
He is so afflicted at her death, that he throws himself into the sea, and is transformed into a didapper. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
The Government is confident that the foregoing general ruling will enable junior and inexperienced officers, temporarily employed on famine duty, to classify appropriately and with facility as denticulate or edentulous all individuals afflicted with dental hiatus, mal-conformation and labefaction, without further reference to higher authority. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919
The one-dimensional cheerful cheeky chappie/sassy brassy tart with a heart stereotypes are no more representative of milliions of people who happen to be working class than the constantly miserable and hellishly afflicted Walford locals. Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters
But if in presence of that fayrest proud thou chance to come, fall lowly at her feet: and with meeke humblesse and afflicted mood, pardon for thee, and grace for me intreat. Amoretti and Epithalamion
Moreover, given the unatoned crimes and continuing discrimination, the greater portion of this sorely afflicted minority decided to emigrate to Germany.
They want us to be afflicted by our helplessness and dejectedness keeping us down and feel like slaves although we just want to feel like and be treated like human beings. Wooster Collective: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives
But the extreme ends of the continent seem afflicted with retro-chic shallowness when it comes to cocktails.
The area in question has now been declared a disaster zone, and provincial funding has been requested to help the afflicted fishermen.
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendez-vous with destiny.
Dorries entered nursing in 1975 as a abecedarian at Warrington Accepted Hospital. 7 From 1978 to 1981, she practised as a nurse in both Warrington and Liverpool. 8 She claims to accept witnessed two adulterated terminations, an acquaintance that afflicted her attack to lower the foetal aborticide age. 6 Labour of Love
A drink made by infusion of the bark in hot water is thought to have a tonic effect on the liver when it is afflicted by cold, and rinsing the mouth with this liquid is thought to heal gumboils, strengthen the gums, and ease toothache.
Having many more glutamines makes the binding stronger, and the cell's cytoplasm is afflicted with a gluey glop that leads to accumulating cell damage.
About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease.
We've discovered that another hive is afflicted with a parasitic mite with the terrifying name Varroa destructor Next week we plan to treat them with formic acid, an organic chemical control. Dave Snyder: Farm Report: Starting The Year From Seed
Unless planets are afflicted in Leo, the sign usually indicates strong vitality and a healthy constitution.
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel [sic] and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
A squad of armed policemen ferried the villagers of Yao ethnic group afflicted by the heavy downpour in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Saturday. China's Floods Leave Millions Homeless
And in many parts of the word afflicted by the scourge of war, innocent people have not ceased being murdered, mutilated, or dragged or driven from their homes. ANC Daily News Briefing
The pleasure starts with two magnificent performances: Colin Firth as King George VI, afflicted by a terrible stutter, and Geoffrey Rush as an unorthodox Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue.
Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades.
Enough time had now elapsed since our last newly afflicted patient to conclude that the epidemic was over. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
All the people of Damerghou are afflicted with ophthalmia, which is said to arise from the winds that prevail constantly over this open and unsheltered country. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
He shall rescue the poor man when he cries out, and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He is afflicted with recurring clinical depression, driven by stress - for instance, by terror about jumping out of aeroplanes or plucking up the nerve to mention to Mma Ramotswe his custody of two ill-favoured orphans.
Despite huge initiatives and lavish spending, vast stretches of Asia and Africa continue to be afflicted by the scourges of hunger and disease.
One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened. Archive 2007-03-01
This is not a point that popular evangelical preaching makes well, which tends all too often to see a merely human Jesus being afflicted (in a substitutionary, transactional kind of way) with the total anger of God above.
It's said that he is ‘difficult’, ‘broody’, ‘paranoid’ and afflicted by a tempestuous and confrontational character.
He maintains that the exorcism is the only procedure that can truly and definitively determine whether a person is afflicted by satanic influence. Times, Sunday Times
Sunday, April 17, 2005 furuncle etc. I am currently afflicted with a furuncle (or a carbuncle or just a plain nasty boil) on my inner thigh that make sitting down a very delicate operation. Furuncle etc.
A young man who gets drunk or dissipates otherwise, who offers as an excuse, "Well, I was feeling kind of discontented and had to do something," is afflicted with the wrong kind of discontent in its most virulent form. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Constant mulling had left Father Vic afflicted with a wide array of nervous tics, small flinches and exasperated sighs.
The only difference being that the phanatiques are not afflicted with the scrofula, only with lunacy. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, repressive military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
When we are afflicted with such illnesses, we expect to recover quickly and fully.
In terms of the number of people afflicted it is worse than cancer. Times, Sunday Times
He is afflicted with recurring clinical depression, driven by stress - for instance, by terror about jumping out of aeroplanes or plucking up the nerve to mention to Mma Ramotswe his custody of two ill-favoured orphans.
` ` I was successively afflicted by lethargies and fevers, by opposite tendencies to a consumptive and dropsical habit, by a contraction of my nerves, a fistula in my eye, and the bite of a dog, most vehemently suspected of madness. Through the Magic Door
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
He theorizes that it may be a population-level adaptation, ensuring that the next generation is born before the old is afflicted with diseases like heartworm.
I'm from a fundie background myself, and still have many afflicted family members back in the old country.
With the larvae feeding inside them, the leaves turn brown and withered, and usually the whole tree is afflicted. Times, Sunday Times
Bertrand fell as a Ward to the King, and being sent to Paris, remained there under his royall custodie and protection, to no little discomfort of young Juliet, who became greevously afflicted in minde, because she had lost the company of Bertrand. The Decameron
Against this species of evidence no _alibi_ could be offered, because it was admitted, as we have said elsewhere, that the real persons of the accused were not there present; and everything rested upon the assumption that the afflicted persons were telling the truth, since their evidence could not be redargued. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
In the Bank Alfalah Cup, New Zealand suffered a major reverse with spearhead Bond, afflicted by a sore back, flying home after the first game.
The nightmares which sometimes afflicted his sleep often featured situations where he, too, was trapped. RIOT
Throughout childhood, severe headaches afflicted Richard, and twice he nearly died.
For those afflicted by headache, many alternative therapy options are available which focus more on prevention rather than treatment.
Amber Smith, a stately beauty from Season Two, seemed more or less unafflicted until we saw her going through detox — jackknifed over the trash can and probing her epiglottis with a long finger. Retching With the Stars
But if that path is afflicted, the astrologer can suggest alternatives.
His contempt went deeper than that, he was afflicted with an old-fashioned morality that allowed no qualifications. MURDER SONG
He lay on the bed, his afflicted hand limp and useless. Times, Sunday Times
He was afflicted by self-doubt and introspection. Times, Sunday Times
(Seriously, the little bugger is getting far too close to my Rexona zone) … being the chronically envious type that I am, afflicted by that greenest of the seven deadly sins … Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something.
He had a handsome face and figure, a good bearing, and disclosed familiarity with the stage, and considerable talent as an actor, but he was afflicted with that distressful vocal defect which singers of his school often call vibrato in order to affect to find a virtue in it. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
Sahadeva, and with three other arrows, that chastiser of foes afflicted The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Like a jilted lover, he is still stalking the firm, talking it down and blaming it for disasters that have afflicted the world since. Times, Sunday Times
The fight was indeed competitive but it probably afflicted him with the worst beating in his entire boxing career.
Not only does the rush of water into the cistern disturb any sleepers on the Prince of Wales Road side of the house, but my cistern is afflicted with peculiarly loud gurglings and thumpings, while frequently the pipes emit a loud groaning sound. Whose Body?
The show was good in that it focused on actual children and showed their lives of poverty and, of course, it dwelled on the addictions of alcoholism pointing out that 80 percent of the adults on Pine Ridge were afflicted with this disease. Tim Giago: ABC News: Reflecting on the Obvious at Pine Ridge
Shibe Park had a press box far above the playing field, and a visiting reporter might get a queasy stomach if he was afflicted with acrophobia.
The incomparability principle entails that if the afflicted partner can just wait a month, take an inexpensive pill, and cure this condition, there is nothing moral (as opposed to prudential) to say in favor of doing this. Obligations to Future Kids
Who louing his sonne after a fatherly maner, and speciallye, because he was indued with vertue and good condicions, was afflicted with vnspeakeable griefe. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
He lay on the bed, his afflicted hand limp and useless. Times, Sunday Times
The geographer, it appears, was afflicted with a peculiar squint of the eyes, hence the name strabismus, which the modern oculist applies to that particular infirmity. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
As Hofstadter wrote, "We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well. 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
I rather think some of them were afflicted with this latter disease.
They would have experience; and by that experience they would be able to minister consolation to those who were in any manner afflicted.
He shut himself up in his palace for a while, mourning and afflicted; but at last his Wazirs came in to him and applied themselves to comfort him, saying, “Verily, he who took the damsel is an enchanter, and praised be Allah who hath delivered thee from his craft and sorcery!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Like a jilted lover, he is still stalking the firm, talking it down and blaming it for disasters that have afflicted the world since. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, mental illness is one of the few diseases requiring hospitalization where those afflicted are released before they are cured.
This man was greatly afflicted, covered with boils and sores from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. Christianity Today
There should be no shame in being afflicted by an illness. Times, Sunday Times
This film explores her experience and recovery, as well as those of others similarly afflicted. Times, Sunday Times
Dolements could beset anyone, but especially a fiddlefaced glumpish fellow whose grum and glum afflicted all of his friends and neighbors with a severe outbreak of the humpy-grumpies. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
He was Prince John, the youngest son of George V, born in 1905 and afflicted with the dreaded malady of kings - epilepsy.
Once a death sentence, this deadly disease can now be cured for 80 to 90 percent of those afflicted thanks to an injectable drug called methotrexate. Forbes.com: News
Corot, it is true, had never been afflicted with the preoccupation of combining the freshness of nature with the _patine_ with which ages had embrowned the old gallery pictures; but Daubigny, looking at nature with a more literal eye than McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
The accident was harmless -- for, according to honest admeasurement, it evaded my father's foot by a full yard -- but, under nervous alarm, he swore, and, as troopers will swear, that it had descended direct upon his afflicted member, and, consequently that he was ruined for life. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
Abstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts Images from Writings of William Dean Howells
Then Indonesia was afflicted by the Merapi volcano and a major earthquake in Yogyakarta. Archive 2006-10-01
More of the bullets seemed to be whistling past the gaping holes rather than creating any kind of impact with the afflicted target.
All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants. Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race
If you fear men, you are afflicted with androphobia, if you fear women, gynephobia. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well. Paranoia in american politics
Conflagrate: Can now be cast on afflicted by Shadowfury.
They all seemed perplexingly afflicted with the same strange disease as Henrietta, an illness that gave them an oily and grayish appearance almost like a fish.
-- It is a lamentable fact that some, at least, of the United States herds of prong-horned antelope are afflicted with a very deadly chronic infective disease known as actinomycosis, or lumpy-jaw. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
Rome and the Campagna have been afflicted, from time immemorial, by two plagues, mendicity and brigandage, which after having infected the district with more or less violence for nearly twenty centuries, have been finally thoroughly extirpated by the Italian national government, and relegated to a place among the legends of the past.
Seeing mankind afflicted by original sin, did God not show His mercy?
Mr. King I am afflicted today by people who prepare their supplementaries and do not bother to listen to the answers.
According to his autobiography (Hoxsey, 1956, 62-64), it was his great-grandfather, a horse breeder named John Hoxsey, who developed it at mid-nineteenth century, out of grasses and flowering wild plants which John took from the pasture where a favorite stallion, afflicted with a cancerous growth, grazed daily until the growth necrotized. Ron Paul Wins! | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul - Blog
These paradoxes often seem bewildering to those not afflicted with the football disease. Times, Sunday Times
The peculiarity had afflicted them from the age of eleven and twelve; since then, it had been a constant in their lives. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
If afflicted, it can indicate those who find infamy or notoriety because their misdeeds have caught the public's eye.
This same dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
This is the face of a rare genetic disease called epidermolysis bullosa, or EB -- and researchers believe they have found a treatment that will ease the suffering of those afflicted and help prolong their lives. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
Not content to have a nice big dish of holiday mushroom ravioli or lentil loaf, vegetarians seem curiously afflicted with a desire to conform to the season.
After the incident of the "burning fiery furnace" (Dan. 3) into which the three Hebrew confessors were cast, Nebuchadnezzar was afflicted with some peculiar mental aberration as a punishment for his pride and vanity, probably the form of madness known as lycanthropy (i. e, "the change of a man into a wolf"). Easton's Bible Dictionary
Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt.

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