borrowed from Latin: extract, expel, except, expression, exclusion

But limerence, lovely as it feels, is a time-limited event—it lasts about five years for most couples.

Drink led to mischief.

About 1540 the furibund character of syphilis began to disappear. Probably inherited immunity played a part in this as well as the fact that the Galenical physicians, stirred up by the assaults of Paracelsus, took a more active part in treatment.