1. Finally, the sick, palsied man was laid before Jesus.

2. Apoplectic (adj.) 1610s, "involving apoplexy," from French apoplectique (16c.), from Latin Apoplecticus, from Greek apoplektikos "disabled by a stroke, crippled, struck dumb, senseless; crippled, palsied," extended form of apoplektos, verbal adjective of apoplessein "strike …