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• n  a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis)

• In three Illinois insane asylums 37 women and 35 men paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots.
• Out of his golfing, swimming Florida retirement barged paretic Scarface Al Capone, grinning grandly from behind dark cheaters, cheroot and flashy cravat, as he headed for Miami .
• Some illuminating chapters in this opus were supplied by porky, paretic "Scarface Al" Capone, who gets out of the Federal Correctional Institution on Terminal Island (Los Angeles .