squinancy

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English

Noun

squinancy (countable and uncountable, plural squinancies)

  1. Alternative form of squinance.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue

Descendants

  • Irish: scinansi (obsolete)