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单词 to cast water
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to cast water
40. to cast water: to diagnose disease by the inspection of (urine). Also figurative. Obsolete or dialect.
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1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 37v An Italian [physician],..casting my water.., commaunded the chamber to be voyded.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C4v Able to cast his disease without his water.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 52 If thou could'st Doctor, cast The Water of my Land, finde her Disease. View more context for this quotation
?1616 W. Goddard Mastif Whelp xlvi. sig. D2v Your vrine..I'le truly cast, & tell you your disease.
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. v. 66 in Wks. (1640) III I had it of a Jew, and a great Rabbi, Who every morning cast his cup of White-wine With sugar.
1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 2 It casts the water of the State, ever since it staled bloud.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 189 I don't cast Water now, but Accounts.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) A person is said to cast another's water who pretends to discover diseases by the inspection of urine.
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