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‖ Gratiola Bot.|græˈtaɪələ|
[mod.L. f. grātia grace: so called from the supposed medicinal virtues of the plants. Cf. F. gratiole.]
A genus of scrophulariaceous plants, the best known species of which is G. officinalis, the Hedge Hyssop.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 295 Gratiola, or gratia Dei, boyle it and drinke it, or eate it in any kinde of meat to open the belly freely. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 86 A Plant found in France, which the Botanists call Gratiola. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 187 The sensible qualities of gratiola are strongest when it is in flower. 1847E. J. Seymour Severe Dis. I. 92 A vinous infusion of gratiola. |