fermacy

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Middle English

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Noun

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fermacy

  1. medicine; pharmacy
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 2711-2714:
      To othere woundes, and to broken armes,
      Some hadden salves, and some hadden charmes;
      Fermacies of herbes, and eek save
      They dronken, for they wolde hir limes have.
      To other wounds and to broken arms,
      Some had salves, and some had charms;
      Medicines made of herbs, and also of sage
      They drank, for they wanted to have their limbs cured.

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