عُضَالٌ

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عُضَالٌ , applied to a disease, Severe, or distressing, that wearies the physicians; as also عَضِلٌ and عَضِيلٌ : or wearing and overcoming: or, so applied, hateful, that attacks suddenly, and is not slow to kill; the treatment of which wearies the physicians: or that frustrates the ability of the physicians, there being no cure for it. And in like manner it is applied to an affair [as meaning That wearies him who would perform it]: or meaning hard, or difficult, which one will not undertake, or [be able to] manage; and in like manner مُعَضِّلٌ [or مُعْضِلٌ ]: or, as some say, the affair [that is hard, or difficult,] is termed عُضَالٌ in its first state; and معضل [i. e. مُعَضِّلٌ or مُعْضِلٌ ] when it is obligatory. And حَلْفَةٌ عُضَالٌ means A hard, or severe, oath, in which is no exception: or, accord. to IAar, in the phrase حَلَفْتُ عُضَالًا, the latter word signifies a wonderful calamity; and the phrase means I swore an oath that was a severe calamity.

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