squinancy

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Noun

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squinancy (countable and uncountable, plural squinancies)

  1. Alternative form of squinance
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue
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