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▪ I. ˈhealing, vbl. n.1
[f. heal v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. heal; restoration to health; recovery from sickness; curing, cure.
c1000Gosp. Nicod. x, Ne be hælinge, ne be reste daᵹa ᵹewemminge. c1340Cursor M. 13871 (Trin.) Of sekenes hastou helynge. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 68 Of þis heelyng..hise neiȝeboris hadden greet wondir. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 71 It is yll healyng of an olde sore. 1611Bible Nahum iii. 19 There is no healing of thy bruise: thy wound is grieuous. 1860Ellicott Life Our Lord v. 213 Numerous healings..performed in the plain of Gennesareth. 1880Daily News 7 Dec. 5/4 The wound is already showing signs of healing.
b. spec. The touching by English sovereigns for the king's evil.
(An Office for the Healing was formerly often printed with the Prayer-book. A MS. copy, said to be of 1559, is in the Bodleian Library.)
1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1082/4 Lost in the Banketing-house at Whitehall..presently after the Healing, a Ring, with an Onyx-Stone. 1707Bk. Com. Prayer Y vi (title), At the Healing. 1876Blunt Annot. P.B. 580 The Office used at the Healing. Ibid., Two silver touch-pieces for distribution at the healing.
2. transf. and fig. Mending, reparation; restoration of wholeness, well-being, safety, or prosperity; spiritual restoration, salvation.
a1225St. Marher. 19 Fulht of fonstan healunge. 1611Bible Mal. iv. 2 Vnto you that feare my Name, shall the Sunne of righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 100 It seems to promise enough, and carry more Healing with it. 1861May Const. Hist. i. (1882) I. 9 A new reign..was favourable to the healing of political differences.
3. attrib. and Comb., as healing action, healing art; healing-box, the box containing the chrism for unction (Ogilvie, 1885); † healing-coin, -gold, the money given to those that were touched for the king's evil; healing-pyx = healing-box.
1683Treasury Warrant 17 Nov. (Halliwell), Privy purse healing-gold {pstlg}500. 1824Scott St. Ronan's vii, It covered more of the healing science than the gowns of a whole modern university. 1857Chambers' Inform. I. 777 If the healing action is languid, some stimulating ingredient may be added. 1857Mayne Reid War Trail xxvii. 124 Ample practice in the healing art.
▪ II. healing, vbl. n.2
covering: see heling.
▪ III. ˈhealing, ppl. a.
[f. heal v. + -ing2.]
1. That heals or cures; curative; salutary.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxiv. (1495) 618 The apples of the cypresse tree..ben soure and heelyng. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 156 To the succeeding Royalty he leaues The healing benediction. 1611Bible Jer. xxx. 13 Thou hast no healing medicines. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock iv. 56 A branch of healing Spleenwort in his hand. 1824Scott St. Ronan's i, An analysis of the healing waters.
2. transf. and fig.
1659Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 331, I should be glad that this question might be a healing question among us. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 290 To whom with healing words Adam reply'd. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. ii. i. 535 By his Concurrence, Help, and healing Counsels To stop those wounds. 1767T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. II. iii. 228 He made the following mild and healing speech to them. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 281 Some Lords..came down to give a healing vote.
3. Of a wound: That cicatrizes or closes.
1857Chambers' Inform. I. 777 The best dressing for a healing wound. 1888Daily News 4 Oct. 6/2, I saw six..healing sores on the left forehead.
4. Comb.: healing blade, leaf, (a) the Common House-leek, Sempervivum tectorum; (b) the Greater Plantain, Plantago major; healing-herb, the Common Comfrey, Symphytum officinale; † healing-horn, ? hartshorn; healing-oil, the chrism used in the rite of extreme unction (Lee Gloss. Eccl. & Liturg. Terms).
1657Reeve God's Plea 317 Ivory, Furs, Musks, Sables, healing-horns, Bezarstones, etc., come not there from Beasts? 1799Ess. Highland Soc. III. 389 (Jam.) The uniformly successful treatment of sheep affected with this disorder..by giving them a decoction of the Dewcup and Healing leaf boiled in buttermilk. 1877A. W. Bennett tr. Thomé's Struct. Bot. (1882) 43 In direct contrast to the generating tissues are the healing-tissues, tuberous tissues, or cork-tissues.
Hence ˈhealingly adv.
1864in Webster. 1886R. Broughton Dr. Cupid III. ii. 39 The lovely common sights of early morning touch healingly upon his bruised brain. |