▪ I. cicatrice
(ˈsɪkətrɪs)
Forms: 6 cycatryce, -ise, 7 -ize, sicatrice, 5, 7– cicatrice.
[a. F. cicatrice, (16th c.) ad. L. cicātrīcem cicatrix.]
1. The scar of a healed wound: = cicatrix 1.
c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4091 (1888) 134 Crist his Cicatrices wold shewe his fadere for vs. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg, In places wherin we wolde that no cycatryce shulde appere, as in y⊇ face. 1607 Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 164 Ith' Shoulder, and ith' left Arme: there will be large Cicatrices to shew the People. 1666 G. Harvey Morb. Angl. xiv. 163 The cicatrize, or agglutination is performed by a dissolvable..kind of humour. 1865 Livingstone Zambesi xxi. 438 The Makoa are known by a cicatrice in the forehead. |
fig. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 105 These cicatrices and scarres of false imputations. 1849 Cobden Speeches 87 Not to grant loans at your expense—not to maintain a great army at your expense—not to place a temporary cicatrice over the sores of Ireland, but to remedy them. |
b. loosely. A scar-like mark or impression.
1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. 23 Leane vpon a rush, The Cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palme some moment keepes. |
2. transf. A scar on the bark of a tree.
c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 352 Thus graffe under the rynde a bough or tree, There cicatrice is noon. 1789 G. White Selborne (1853) II. xxviii. 240 A row of pollard-ashes with long cicatrices down their sides. |
▪ II. cicatrice
obs. form of cicatrize.