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king's_evil

king's evil

English

Noun

king's evil (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) scrofula
    • 1806, Robert Willan, On vaccine inoculation
      Suppose the person the matter is taken from, has the king's evil, the pox, madness, or some other inveterate disease — I am sure the inoculator can give no reason why it should not convey one distemper as well as the other.