† lechne, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 lǽcnian, lécnian, lácnian, 2 lechnien, pa. pple. ilechned, 3 lacnien, lechinien, lechni(e, lecnen, 4 lechnen.
[OE. lǽcnian, lácnian = ON. lǽkna, Goth. lêkinôn:—OTeut. *læ̂kinôjan, f. *læ̂kjo-z leech n.1]
trans. To cure, heal, lit. and fig. Also absol. to administer medicine.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xviii. [xvi.] (1890) 308 Se ða in þæm ilcan dælum deaᵹollice læcnod [v. rr. lacnad, lacnod] wæs from his wundum. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke iv. 23 La lece lecne ðec seolfne. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxxiii. (Z.) 203 Medeor, ic lacniᵹe. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Adam wes ilechned þurh god almihte solf. c 1205 Lay. 16589 To lechinien [c 1275 lechnie] þa wunden of leofenen his cnihten. Ibid. 19500 Sa me scal lacnien [c 1275 lechni] his leomes þat beoð sare. a 1225 Ancr. R. 330 Uorte lecnen mid þe seke, & forte healen mide hire cancre. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 189 Lame men he lechede [MS. M. lechnede]. |
Hence † lechning vbl. n.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 106 Se ærest of þyssum wyrtum læcnunge ᵹesette. a 1225 Juliana 6 Wið uten lechnunge of hire libben he ne mahte. a 1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 202 Hit beo mi lechnunge hit beo mi bote. |