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levisticus

levisticus, ~a, ~um [LL < CL ligusticum] , lovage (Levisticum officinale). b (as adj.) of lovage. libestica, lufestice Ælf. Gram. 310; ibi crescit sandix, caula vel magudalis, algium, dilla, libestica, febrifugia ‥ Ælf. Bata 6 p. 99; lubestica, luvestice Gl. Durh. 303; panaca i. radix luuestici Gl. Laud. 1162; cataplasmentur virilia ‥ et statim mingat. hoc idem fiat de ~o Gilb. I 74v. 1; hec luvestica, luvesche Gl. AN Glasg. f. 18ra; hoc lovesticum lovache Gl. AN Ox. 603; 12‥ ~um, i. luuesche, i. luuestiche WW; ut paritaria ~us furfur Gad. 32v. 2; herba ive et radix ~i que valent in catalensia Ib. 63v. 1; apium ~um, i. loveache SB 11; leviticus, A. louache Alph. 95; loveage ‥ †lenisticus [l. levisticus] PP; si valde sitit [falco] accipe pulverem caulis ~i Upton 190.  b pallere facit faciem nimis exhausto sanguine, / coctione levistica, vel alio molimine (Pol. Poems) EHR V 322.

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