Obs. Also 3–5 letuarie, 4 latuarye, letuare, 4–5 let(e)wary, -ye, 4–6 letuary, 5 lect-, lett-, lytwary, letwerye, lettorye, letuarye, 6 lectuarie. [Aphetic form of ELECTUARY. Cf. OF. letuaire.] An electuary.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 226. He haueð so monie bustes ful of his letuaries.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 741. To late cometh þe letuarye, Whan men þe cors vn-to þe graue carye.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 183. Make herof a letuarie not to hard soden.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 240. Moche worth is the lytwary y-makyd of fuste and aloes.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, I. iii. (1896), 7. With þe whilk þai … has gretter comforth þen may be trowyd of gostely letwary.
1453–4. Durh. MS. Com. Roll, In confeccione vocat. lettorye.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xxx. (Percy Soc.), 149. I shall provide for you a lectuary, Which after sorow into your herte shall sinke.
1528. Paynel, Salerne’s Regim., Y ii. Whan pepper is ministred in lectuaries it is holsome for the coughe.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. xciii. 778. Turpentine in a lectuarie with honey, clenseth the breast and the lunges.
