Search for: Healing
9441 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEECH.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A physician; a professor of the art of healing.
9442 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEECH-CRAFT.1 (Noah Webster)
LEECH-CRAFT, n. The art of healing. Obs.
9443 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LUXURIANCE.5 (Noah Webster)
A fungus prevents healing only by its luxuriancy.
9444 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICABLE.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICABLE, a. [See Medical.] That may be cured or healed.
9445 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICAL.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICAL, a. [L. medicus, from medcor, to heal; Gr. cure.]
9446 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICAL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Pertaining to the art of healing diseases; as the medical profession; medical services.
9447 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Medicinal; containing that which heals; tending to cure; as the medical properties of a plant.
9448 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICALLY, adv. In the manner of medicine; according to the rules of the healing art, or for the purpose of healing; as a simple or mineral medically used or applied.
9449 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICALLY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In relation to the healing art; as a plant medically considered.
9450 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICAMENT.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICAMENT, n. [L. medicamentum.] Any thing used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.
9451 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICAMENTAL.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICAMENTAL, a. Relating to healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments.
9452 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICAMENTALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICAMENTALLY, adv. After the manner of healing applications.
9453 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICATE.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDICATE, v.t. [L. medico.] To tincture or impregnate with healing substances, or with any thing medicinal.
9454 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICINAL.1 (Noah Webster)
… of healing or of mitigating disease; adapted to the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as medicinal plants, medicinal virtues of minerals; medicinal …
9455 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDICINALLY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. With a view to healing; as, to use a mineral medicinally.
9456 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MIRACLE.3 (Noah Webster)
… Christ healed lepers, saying, “I will, be thou clean,” or calmed the tempest, “Peace, be still.”
9457 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MIRACULOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
MIRACULOUS, a. Performed supernaturally, or by a power beyond the ordinary agency of natural laws; effected by the direct agency of Almighty power, and not by natural causes; as the miraculous healing of the sick or raising the dead by Christ.
9458 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MIRACULOUSLY.2 (Noah Webster)
AEneas, wounded as he was, could not have engaged him in single combat, unless his hurt had been miraculously healed.
9459 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OPERATION.9 (Noah Webster)
4. In surgery, any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, with a view to heal a part diseased, fractured or dislocated, as in amputation, etc.
9460 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHYSIC.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The art of healing diseases. This is now generally called medicine.