paralytical

IPA: pɛrʌɫˈɪtɪkʌɫ

Examples of "paralytical" in Sentences

"After amassing a considerable fortune he died, sir, of a paralytical stroke, upon the 12th of November last."
This is to be understood of a dumb person, made so by some paralytical or apoplectical stroke, which sometimes wounds the understanding.
She was out of humour at being interrupted, and therefore did not peruse this specimen of her nephew’s understanding with all the relish that the commodore himself had enjoyed; on the contrary, after sundry paralytical endeavours to speak (for her tongue sometimes refused its office), she observed that the boy was a pert jackanapes, and deserved to be severely chastised for treating his betters with such disrespect.