lousy evil

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lousy evil (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Phthiriasis.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      if Heraclitus and Pherecydes could have changed their wisdome with health, and by that meanes, the one to have rid himselfe of the dropsie, and the other of the lowsie-evill [translating maladie pediculaire], which so sore tormented them, they would surely have done it […].
    • 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, London, published 1816:
      The seed bruised mixed with honey, and applied, or made up with wax, takes away the marks and black and blue spots of bruises, or the like, the roughness or scabbiness of the skin, as also the leprosy, and lousy evil.
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