parmaceti

English

Noun

parmaceti (plural parmacetis)

Obsolete spelling of parmacety
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  […] God save the mark!—
  And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth
  Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;

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