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catamenia
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synonyms: menstrue, ~menarche ???
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I am assured by some persons of credit, that if they are touched, or even approached, by a woman in her catamenia, they infallibly expire.
Tobias Smollett. Travels Through France and Italy (1766)
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Menstruous is, 'having the catamenia;' and this last word is wanting, a frequent mode of definition in this book.J.T. Callender. Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson. (1782)
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twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents—in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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This case is also remarkable for two other facts: one, "that a woman in perfect health, and pregnant with a healthy child, may exceed the period of nine months by several days; the other, that a check is not always immediately given to the catamenial flow by an ovum being impregnated." Probably it is not so generally so as many suppose.
Charles Knowlton. The Fruits of Philosophy.
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