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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heal.

Etymologies

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heal + -eth

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Examples

  • Saviour, which with a word healeth all, and if he will he may heal me.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Almighty, everlasting God, who dost look upon the earth and make it tremble, spare those who are afraid, and be merciful to those who pray to Thee: that we who fear Thine anger, which shaketh the the foundations of the earth, may always experience Thy mercy, which healeth its commotions.

    Global Warming John 2008

  • I have bound myself that whoso goeth in to my daughter and healeth her not of that which hath befallen her I will strike off his head; but whoso healeth her him I will marry to her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he summoned on it the doctors and astrologers and men skilled in talisman-writing and said to them, Whoso healeth my daughter of what ill she hath, I will marry him to her and give him half of my kingdom; but whoso cometh to her and cureth her not,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Roman, Arabian, and Syrian; and he was skilled in astronomy and in leechcraft, the theorick as well as the practick; he was experienced in all that healeth and that hurteth the body; conversant with the virtues of every plant, grass and herb, and their benefit and bane; and he understood philosophy and had compassed the whole range of medical science and other branches of the knowledge tree.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Thy noble hound is now recovered, by the blessing of that divine medicine which healeth man and beast; and by his sagacity shall those who assailed him be discovered.”

    The Talisman 2008

  • God often works by contrarieties, he first kills and then makes alive, he woundeth first and then healeth, he makes man sow in tears that he may reap in joy; 'tis God's method: he that is so visited, must with patience endure and rest satisfied for the present.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For men think that they earn their honors hardly, and pity them sometimes; and pity ever healeth envy.

    The Essays 2007

  • Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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