Pronounced: jack-tuh-TAY-shun, noun
Notes: I don’t think I’ve run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word leechdom is “a remedy or medicine”
First usage
Our word came into English around 900
Background / Comments
Our word has nothing to do with leeches – the origin of that word is different. Our word came from the Old English word laecedom (medicine; healing) which came from laece (physician).
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