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leechcraft arch.|ˈliːtʃkrɑːft, -æ-|
Forms: see leech n.1
[OE. lǽcecræft, f. lǽce leech n.1 + cræft craft.]
The art of healing; medical science, † medical attendance. † at leechcraft under treatment. † Also concr. Remedy, medicine.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xvi. §3 Swa mæᵹ eac se dreamcræft ðæt se mon bið dreamere, & se læcecræft þæt he bið læce. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 8 Læcecræftas & dolᵹsealfa & drencas wiþ eallum wundum. c1200Ormin 1869 Þurrh Crisstenndomess læchecrafft. c1205Lay. 7616 Ne þurh nenne læche-cræfte ne mihte he lif habben. a1225Ancr. R. 370 God & his deciples speken of soule lechekreft. c1315Shoreham 2 For siknesse lechecreft, And for the goute sealve Me makethe. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 81 Til þat ich dispice Leche-craft of oure lorde and leyue on a wicche. 1471J. Paston in P. Lett. No. 670 III. 7 My horse that was at lechecraft at the Holt. Ibid., My leche crafte and fesyk, and rewardys to them that have kept me..hathe cost me sythe Estern Day more then vli. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 33 In leichecraft he was homecyd. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed (1807–8) VI. 68 Their common schooles of leachcraft and law. 1592Davies Immort. Soul Introd. xxvi. (1714) 7 We Leech-craft learn, but others cure with it. 1626Vicary's Anat. 111 Letchcraft is in two manners, that is both Physicke and Chirurgerie. 1814Scott Chivalry (1874) 19 The quality of leech-craft..was essential to the character of an accomplished princess. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. v, Nature, to say nothing of Madge's leechcraft ultimately triumphed. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 196 The black folk E'en saved my life from that ill stroke, By leech-craft. |