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14321 Etymology dictionary, p. garrison (n.).2
… ; salvation; healing, recovery, cure" (Modern French guérison "cure, recovery, healing") from garir "take care of, protect, defend," from a Germanic source, from Proto …
14322 Etymology dictionary, p. healing (n.).1
healing (n.)
14323 Etymology dictionary, p. heal (v.).1
heal (v.)
14324 Etymology dictionary, p. heal (v.).2
… "to heal, cure"), literally "to make whole" (from PIE *kailo- "whole;" see health ). Intransitive sense from late 14c. Related: Healed; healing .
14325 Etymology dictionary, p. heal-all (n.).1
heal-all (n.)
14326 Etymology dictionary, p. heal-all (n.).2
… ," from heal + all; applied since 1814 to various plants supposed to possess healing virtues. The native word for panacea. For the formation, compare s ave-all "means …
14327 Etymology dictionary, p. healer (n.).2
… who heals," especially "savior, Jesus," agent noun from heal (v.). As "a curative medicine" from late 14c. The usual Old English noun for Jesus as savior was hæland (Middle …
14328 Etymology dictionary, p. health (n.).2
… "to heal"). With Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).
14329 Etymology dictionary, p. health (n.).3
… to heal. Meaning "a salutation" (in a toast, etc.) wishing one welfare or prosperity is from 1590s. Health food is from 1848.
14330 Etymology dictionary, p. -iatry.2
word-forming element meaning "medical treatment," from French -iatrie, from Greek iatreia "healing, medical treatment" (see -iatric ).
14331 Etymology dictionary, p. -iatric.2
… iatrikos "healing," from iatros "physician, healer" (related to iatreun "treat medically," and iasthai "heal, treat"); of uncertain origin, perhaps from iaomai "to cure …
14332 Etymology dictionary, p. iatro-.2
word-forming element meaning "a physician; medicine; healing," from Greek iatros "healer, physician" (see -iatric ).
14333 Etymology dictionary, p. incarnate (v.).2
… in healing a wound) is from 1670s. Related: Incarnated; incarnating .
14334 Etymology dictionary, p. irremediable (adj.).2
"beyond remedy," mid-15c., from Late Latin irremediabilis "incurable," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + remediabilis "that may be healed, curable" (see remediable ).
14335 Etymology dictionary, p. Jason.2
… "to heal" (see -iatric ). The names were somewhat merged in Christian Greek.
14336 Etymology dictionary, p. leech (v.).2
"to cure, heal," c. 1200, from Old English also had a verb læcnian, from the source of leech (n.2). Meaning "to apply leeches medicinally" is from 1802 (implied in leeching ), from leech (n.1). Related: Leeched .
14337 Etymology dictionary, p. leechcraft (n.).2
"art of healing," Old English læcecræft; see leech (2) + craft (n.). Old English had also læcedom "medicine." A later word for it was leechery (c. 1600).
14338 Etymology dictionary, p. marshmallow (n.).2
… "to heal, get well" (the roots were used medicinally), from PIE root *al- (2) "to grow, nourish."
14339 Etymology dictionary, p. *med-.4
… "to heal, give medical attention to, cure;" Irish miduir "judge;" Welsh meddwl "mind, thinking;" Gothic miton, Old English metan "to measure out."
14340 Etymology dictionary, p. medication (n.).2
… , cure," noun of action from past-participle stem of medicare, medicari "to medicate, heal, cure" (poetic and Late Latin) from medicus "physician; healing" (from …