† sickmann.
Obsolete.
A man who is ill.
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c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 216 Homme malade gist en liter, Sikeman lith in hors-bere.
c1460 Play Sacr. 556 By what deuyll dyleth hym so long to tare, A seekman myght soone myscary.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 202 The Prayer of feyth shall hele the sekeman.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. John xi. 1 Thar was a seekman, Lazarus of Bethanie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 176 Your Affections are A sickmans Appetite. View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §953 As if you should tell a Servant of a Sicke-man, that his Master shall recover [etc.].
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