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leechdom

noun

Etymology

From Middle English lechedom, from Old English lǣċedōm (“medicament, medicine; healing, salvation”), equivalent to leech + -dom.

  1. inherited from lǣċedōm
  2. inherited from lechedom

Definitions

  1. A medicine

    A medicine; remedy.

    • That shall be a leechdom for her, for the one who there combeth her head.
    • Egina, the English practitioner of the time would make a collection of receipts, prescriptions, or leechdoms for the various injuries, wounds, and common maladies, substituting the native herbs when foreign drugs were not to be had.
    • A leechdom if thou will that an ill swelling and the venomous humour should burst out.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA