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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1552, 1622-1676
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Medicinal(l, a. Also: medicinale, medicionell, medecinall. [ME. and e.m.E. medicynall (Rolle), medecinall (1502), L. medicīnāl-is, F. médicinal.]
1. Curative, medicinal. Also fig. a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 725.
Of ane herbe so medicinale 1528 Lynd. Dreme 765.
Sweit hailsum … odouris Proceidyng frome the herbis medicinall c1552 Id. Mon. 134. 1670 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 264.
That medicinall wall at the Womanhill 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 276.
And planting of medecinall herbsfig. a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 685.
Of sic mater medicinale memorie, It is a triakle syn for till asswage c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 24/7.
2. Of or pertaining to medical science, medical. 1622-6 Bisset II. 372/33.
Na medicionell ingyne of man mycht … cuir him be phisik
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