king's evil

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noun

scrofula: so called because it was supposed to be curable by the touch of the reigning sovereign.

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Origin of king's evil

1350–1400; Middle English kynges evel

Words nearby king's evil

king's color, King's Counsel, king's crown, king's English, king's evidence, king's evil, Kingsford-Smith, king's highway, kingship, kingside, king-size

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One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “Evil Empire” were animated by this belief.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
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The King of Delhi had a hunting-lodge somewhere in the locality, but he had never seen the place.
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British Dictionary definitions for king's evil

king's evil

noun

the king's evil pathol a former name for scrofula

Word Origin for king's evil

C14: from the belief that the king's touch would heal scrofula

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