[ad. F. asphyxie, ad. L. asphyxia.] = ASPHYXIA.
1784. (title) Gardane’s Catechism concerning the apparent Deaths, called Asphyxies [transl. from Fr.].
1837. Beddoes, Lett., in Poems, Introd. 103. About to awake from her asphyxy of a hundred years.
1882. G. Macdonald, Weighed & Want., II. xv. 192. His letters … absorbed her atmosphere, and after each followed a period of mental asphyxy.
