This week’s theme
Unusual synonyms

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PRONUNCIATION:

(LEECH-duhm)

MEANING:

noun: A remedy or medicine.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English laecedom (medicine, healing), from laece (physician). The word for the bloodsucking parasite has a different origin. Earliest documented use: 900.

USAGE:

“I will now do my leechdoms with the sick man.”
William Morris; The Water of the Wondrous Isles; Kelmscott Press; 1897.

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