artire

English

Noun

artire (plural artires)

1. Obsolete form of artery.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     My fate cries out, / And makes each petty Artire in this body, / As hardy as the Nemian Lions nerue.