† clysteryn.
Obsolete.
A clyster.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 393 Also he usede ofte clistories and spuynge.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lxvii. 285 By spewenge other byneth wyth a Clisterye.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/1 Glystery, or glystere, glisterium, glistere.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 36/1 Loosen his body with Clisteryes, or with Suppositoryes.
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