From a popular belief that the <span class="searchmatch">King</span> could cure the disease by touching the sufferer. <span class="searchmatch">king's</span> <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> (uncountable) (archaic) scrofula 1806, Robert Willan...
two <span class="searchmatch">evils</span> <span class="searchmatch">king's</span> <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> lesser <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> lesser of two <span class="searchmatch">evils</span> lousy <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> money is the root of all <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> necessary <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> poll <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> problem of <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> quarter-<span class="searchmatch">evil</span> root...
ghindură, cf. also Albanian gjendër. gljindurã f (plural gljinduri) acorn gland tonsil scrofula, tonsillitis, <span class="searchmatch">king's</span> <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> gljinduros ngljindur gljindã...
Kings County <span class="searchmatch">King's</span> Cross <span class="searchmatch">King's</span> Daughters Kings Draw kings draw <span class="searchmatch">King's</span> Dyke <span class="searchmatch">King's</span> English <span class="searchmatch">king's</span> <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> <span class="searchmatch">King's</span> Gambit Kings Heath kingship <span class="searchmatch">king</span> shit of fuck...
scotoma. 1719, William Vickers, An easie and safe method for curing the <span class="searchmatch">King's</span> <span class="searchmatch">Evil</span>, page 39: One of them, at great Expence of Algebra, proves, that the...
misquotation of 1 Timothy 6:10 in the <span class="searchmatch">King</span> James Bible, which actually reads "For the love of money is the root of all <span class="searchmatch">evil</span>: which while some coveted after...
Britain after they had been touched by the sovereign as a cure for the <span class="searchmatch">king's</span> <span class="searchmatch">evil</span>. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">evil</span>-eye WOTD – 13 July 2023 From Middle English ivel eie (“<span class="searchmatch">evil</span> eye; envy”), from Old English eage yfel, a calque of Latin oculus malus, from...
that do appear She feels them in herself […] 1906, Ambrose Bierce, “<span class="searchmatch">king's</span> <span class="searchmatch">evil</span>”, in The Cynic’s Word Book, London: Arthur F. Bird […], →OCLC, page 211:...
uvel, evel English: <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> Scots: <span class="searchmatch">evil</span>, ewil yfel n something bad or bad things collectively; harm, misfortune <span class="searchmatch">evil</span> late 9th century, <span class="searchmatch">King</span> Alfred's translation...