Paritory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Paritory is a noun meaning (Early Modern) Obsolete form of pellitory.
Meaning
(Early Modern) Obsolete form of pellitory.
Example Sentences
And so is Organ beyng greene, Cresses, Tyme, […] Paritory, and Rocket. These herbes and this roote, be rather eaten of necessitye, then of will and fantasy.
Pellitory or Paritory hath rounde tender, thorough shining, & browne redde stalkes: the leaues be rough & somwhat broade, like Mercury but nothing snipte or dented about.
Take of the leaues of Tansey, and drie them, and bray them into pouder, of the which cause the woman to drinke halfe an ounce in good whyte wine, and it will purge the matrix commodiously: the lyke effect doth the iuice of Paritorie giuen do drinke.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pillery, fumetere, potager, departition, parcity, parture.
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