Lexicographical Neighbors of Leechdom
Literary usage of Leechdom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides Pedanius (1864)
"That shall be a leechdom for her, for the one who there ... it on a twig which
is turned downwards, and let her collect it again ; that is her leechdom. 8. ..."
2. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1892)
"Give him for this a leechdom" (and many herbs are mentioned), "to be soaked iu
ale and holy water," and sing this charm over them thrice—• 1 These phrases ..."
3. Holly, Yew & Box: With Notes on Other Evergreens by William Dallimore, Thomas Moore (1908)
"The charm is not given by Canon Ellacombe, but may be seen in Cockayne's work, vol.
ii.\ Leech Book, Hi. p. 351 ; leechdom ..."
4. Holly, Yew & Box: With Notes on Other Evergreens by William Dallimore, Thomas Moore (1908)
"The charm is not given by Canon Ellacombe, but may be seen in Cockayne's work, vol.
ii.\ Leech Book, iii.p. 351 ; leechdom ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"Such phrases are applied not to, eg Mr. Cockayne's leechdom, Wort-cunning and
Star-craft, a strange collection of old wives' cures, but to the views now ..."
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