herbalizev.
archaic.
intransitive. To collect (medicinal) herbs.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > gather herbs
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1695 R. Sibbald Autobiogr. (1834) 131 I went and herbalized in the downes and woods with the gardner of the medicine garden.
1835 Gentleman's Mag. July 3 The Briseis of the tent, with her handmaids, was sent to herbalize on the banks of the river for some fresh and cooling diaphoretic.
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ˈherbalizing n. and adj.
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1767 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 89/1 At the herbalizing feast of the company of apothecaries Mr. Latham recommended the Lamium Album or white nettle to the notice of his brethren.
1769 Lloyd's Evening Post 12- 14 July 45 Yesterday the Apothecaries Company held their Herbalizing feast, at the Assembly-house on Blackheath.
1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer II. 93 Of the fruits of her herbalizing.
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