leechcraft
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The course of his adventures at length conducted him to Scotland, where he followed his leechcraft with similar success."
- "The earliest was Apollo, and his son Aesculapius, and Asclepios; and Asclepios was uncle of Hippocrates ; these four earliest invented the building up of leechcrafts about fifteen hundred years after Noah's flood in the days of Artaxerxes, who was king of the Persians; [...]"
- "Our villain, who may or may not be 'Dr James', knows his Latin but not - if I may so phrase it - his leechcraft.""
- "The use of vapour baths ('stone baths') and the smoke of certain herbs to drive out spirits of disease in animals and humans is well-attested in Germanic folklore and leechcraft, though, and might be compared with the use of steam and steam-baths typical of classical medicine, the Christian ritual of burning away the ashes of embers of sin [...]"
- "According to Geoffrey and Layamon it is through his “leechcraft” that he is able to make Uther look like Gorlois."
- "Herb Lore & Leechcraft"
Etymology
From Middle English lechecraft (“practise of medicine”), from Old English lǣċecræft (“medicine”), equivalent to leech + -craft. More at leech, craft.