Definition of "miryachit" []

• A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another. (noun)

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• "Dr. Hammond says that the chief feature of the new Siberian disease called miryachit is, that the victims are obliged to mimic and execute movements that they see in others, and which motions they are ordered to execute."
• "From this description it will at once, I think, be perceived that there are striking analogies between "miryachit" and this disorder of the "Jumping Frenchmen" of Maine."
• "It was known to Russians by the name of 'miryachit'"."