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Definition of Lienteries
1. lientery [n] - See also: lientery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lienteries
Literary usage of Lienteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genuine Works of Hippocrates by Hippocrates (1849)
"... they are protracted; and there is danger of any sore that there is becoming
phagedenic from any cause; and lienteries and dropsies supervene at the ..."
2. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"... lienteries, or dysenteries have not been dealt with in a chapter by themselves
because the records of them are too few and meagre, so far as we have ..."
3. The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice: By Way of Discourse, Meditation, and by Daniel Brevint (1847)
"And therefore some here put in a caveat against lienteries,* and such like
indispositions: that no man, being troubled with such weaknesses, presume to eat ..."
4. Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred Fabian Hess (1920)
"They are often loose and subject to falling into violent fluxes of the belly,
diarrhoea and lienteries.'' Infants as well as adults usually recover rapidly ..."
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