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king's evil

Obsolete scrofula

Etymology: transl. of ML regius morbus: from the notion that a king's touch could cure it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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