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St. Vitus

NOUN
  1. Christian martyr and patron of those who suffer from epilepsy and Sydenham's chorea (died around 300)

How To Use St. Vitus In A Sentence

  • Let nobody suppose for a moment that this was a case of paralysis agitans, or St. Vitus 'Dance. The Adventure of Living
  • To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
  • St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling.
  • Wenceslas was buried elsewhere initially, moved to St. Vitus’ at a later date, and sainted.
  • To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
  • People call authoritatively for the 'Joy of Life' and theatrical managers call for farces, as though the Joy of Life lay in being foolish, and in describing people who each and every one are suffering from St. Vitus 'dance or idiocy. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
  • Their parents should know that they have chorea, which is the same trouble as St. Vitus's Dance, although often existing in a degree too mild to attract attention. Civics and Health
  • I glanced at Fergus, fidgeting to and fro like a hoptoad with St. Vitus's dance, and decided that I might as well send a few messages myself. Dragonfly in Amber
  • A variation of tarantism spread throughout much of Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, where it was known as the dancing mania or St. Vitus's dance, on account of participants often ending their processions in the vicinity of chapels and shrines dedicated to this saint.
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