English Explanatory Dictionary

anorexia mirabilis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A supposedly miraculous lack of appetite among women of the Middle Ages, who would starve themselves as a form of religious asceticism.

Word forms

anorexia mirabilis
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