| 单词 | evil gold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevil gold c. Short for king's evil n.: scrofula. Also attributive in †evil gold, the gold coin (see angel n. 10) given by the king to those touched by him for ‘the evil’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > scrofula king's evila1387 scrofulac1400 escroeles1483 swine's evil1528 strume1559 struma1565 queen's evil1584 evila1616 crewels1660 royal evila1678 scrofulosis1860 scrofulide1864 scrofulodermia1899 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 182 Les escrovelles, a disease called the quynnancy or the kynges yvell.] a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 147 Macd. What's the Disease he meanes? Mal. Tis call'd the Euill. 1667 London Gaz. No. 154/4 There will be no farther Touching for the Evil till Michaelmas next. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3814/4 Stolen..two Pieces of Evil Gold. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 14 When golden Angels cease to cure the Evil. 1751 Fielding in Lond. Daily Advertiser 31 Aug. Two of the most miserable Diseases..the Asthma and the Evil. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 536 The first who undertook to cure the evil by the royal touch. < as lemmas |
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