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LǼCE

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
LǼCE, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§119; §274; §311; §354;
A LEECH, [Shakspere uses the word once, and even now it has not quite died out, but perhaps, in prose at least, its meaning is usually that given by Bailey in his Dictionary 'a Farrier or Horse-Doctor,' a doctor rather for animals than men], doctor, physician
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  • Lǽce

    medicus,

    • Wrt. Voc. 74. 4
      • .

  • Eálá lǽce gehǽl ðé sylfne [lá léce lécne ðec seolfne, Lind.]

    medice cura te ipsum,

    • Lk. Skt. 4, 23
      • .

  • Cyneferþ lǽce se æt hire wæs ðá heó forþférde

    medicus Cynifrid, qui morienti illi adfuit,

    • Bd. 4, 19
      • ;
    • S. 588, 41
      • .

  • Hálig lǽce

    [the Deity]

    • Hy, 7, 62
      • ;
    • Hy. Grn. ii. 288, 62
      • .

  • Hé [the Pater Noster ] is lamena lǽce,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 155
      • ;
    • Sal. 77
      • .

  • Lǽteþ flint brecan his sconcan ne biþ him lǽce gód

    he shall cause the stones to break his legs, no doctor shall avail him,

    • 206
      • ;
    • Sal. 102
      • .

  • Nys hálum lǽces nán þearf

    non est opus valentibus medico,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 9, 12
      • :
    • Lk. 5, 31
      • :
    • Exon. 89 b
      • ;
    • Th. 336, 8
      • ;
    • Gn. Ex. 45
      • .

  • Hé hine gelǽdde on his lǽcehús and hine lácnude and brohte óðrum dæge twegen penegas and sealde ðam lǽce

    duxit illum in stabulum et curam ejus egit, et altera die protulit duos denarios et dedit stabulario,

    • Lk. Skt. 10, 34-5
      • .

  • Oððe hí lǽceas (Ps. Spl. lǽcas) weccean

    aut medici suscitabunt,

    • Ps. Th. 87, 10
      • .

  • Ðeáh ða woroldlecon lǽceas [Hat. MS. lǽcas] scomaþ ðæt hí onginnem ða wunda lácnian ðe hí gesión ne mágon ... hwílon ne scomaþ ða ðe ðæs módes lǽceas bión sceoldon ðeáh ðe hí náne wuht ongitan ne cunnon ðara gǽstlecena beboda ðæt hí him onteóþ ðæt hí sín heortan lǽceas

    tamen sæpe qui nequaquam spiritalia præcepta cognoverunt, cordis se medicos profiteri non metuunt: dum qui pigmentorum vim nesciunt, videri medici carnis erubescunt,

    • Past. 1, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 24, 19-26, 2
      • .

  • Witodlíce ne mágon lǽceas [MS. B. lǽcas] náht mycel hǽlan bútan ðisse wyrte

    certainly, doctors cannot heal much without this plant,

    • Herb. 20, 4
      • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 114, 22
      • .

  • Lǽcas lǽraþ ðisne lǽcedóm,

    • L. M. 2, cont. 18, 20
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 160, 17, 22
      • .

  • Lǽceas secgaþ,

    • 19
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 160, 19
      • .

  • Seó cóðu ðe lǽcas hátaþ paralisin,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 546, 29
      • .

  • Gelácna ðú hý forðan ðú éðest miht ealra lǽca,

    • Hy. 1, 6
      • ;
    • Hy. Grn. ii. 280, 6
      • .

  • Fram manegum lǽcum

    a compluribus medicis,

    • Mk. Skt. 5, 26
      • .

  • Is seó geoluwe swá ðeáh swíðost lǽceon [MS. B. lǽcon] gecwéme

    the yellow is however most suitable for doctors,

    • Herb. 165, 1
      • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 294, 11
      • .

  • Josep beád his þeówan lǽcon

    Joseph præcepit servis suis medicis,

    • Gen. 50, 1
      • .

  • Seó fordǽlde on lǽcas eall ðæt heó áhte

    in medicos erogaverat omnem substantiam suam,

    • Lk. Skt. 8, 43
      • .

  • Léceas,

    • Ep. Gl. 18 b, 21.
a leech (species of worm)
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  • Lǽce

    sanguisuga vel hirudo,

    • Ælfc. 23
      • ;
    • Som. 60, 5
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 24, 9
      • :

    sanguisuga,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 71, 17.

  • Lýces

    sanguissuge,

    • Kent. Gl. 1085
      • .
[
Prompt. Parv. leche.
]
Etymology
[
O. E. Homl. lache, leche
:
Orm. læche
:
A. R. leche
:
Chauc. Piers P. leche
:
Prompt. Parv. leche aliptes, empiricus, medicus, cirurgicus, a surgion; p. 291 note, q. v.
:
Goth. lékeis, leikeis
:
O. Frs. leza, letza, leischa
:
O. H. Ger. láhhi, láche medicus
:
Dan. læge
:
cf. Icel. laknari, læknir.
]
Similar entries
v. heáh-lǽce.
Linked entries
v.  lǽca léce.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “LǼCE.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/20909.

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