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Leechcraft

Leechcraft \Leech"craft`\ (-kr[.a]ft`), n. The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
leechcraft

"art of healing," Old English læcecræft; see leech (2) + craft (n.).

Usage examples of "leechcraft".

He had lived with her until he was about thirteen, learning French and English in the drawing-room society of Moscow, and then she had taken him back to the steppe to study leechcraft with his father.

He knew some members of his race, especially those in the Balkan countries, stole blood like vile insects, giving neither love nor leechcraft in return.

The country was as innocent of leechcraft as the land of Canaan in the days of Abraham.

They had forborne to question him, and one, who knew something of leechcraft, had tended his bruises.

To the royal astonishment, Eugenius with skillful leechcraft at once drew out that painful thing.

Venom is in the steel, and wounds it gives cannot be healed by leechcraft or magic or prayer.

I understand leechcraft so well, that I will answer for your speedy and perfect recovery.