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medicining, vbl. n.|ˈmɛds(ə)nɪŋ| [f. medicine v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. medicine.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 139 It behooueth the shepehearde to be skilfull in medcening of his cattell. 1601Holland Pliny II. 167 If they [sc. figs] be brought unto their maturitie by medicining, that is to say, by caprification, then they are never good. 1611Cotgr., Pharmacie: a curing, or medecining with drugs. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 22. 1089 The medicining of the one, and cleansing of the other, did not take away their nature; still the one remained a Dogge, the other a Hogge. 1867Carlyle Remin. II. 135 She..having..a turn herself for medicining. 1876Ruskin Fors Clav. lxvii. 204 They..propose to themselves the general medicining..of the population. |