Path. Also 6 lyentery, 7 lienterie, lyantery, 7–8 lięntary, 8 -ory; and in L. form LIENTERIA. [ad. F. lienterie, ad. mod.L. līenteria, ad. Gr. λειεντερία, f. λεῖος smooth + ἔντερα bowels.] A form of diarrhœa, in which the food passes through the bowels partially or wholly undigested; an instance or kind of this.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cciv. 70 b. The lyentery or imperfyte dygestion.
1647. A. Ross, Mystagogus Poet., ii. (1675), 49. They [Harpies] are troubled with a continual flux or lientary.
1650. H. Brooke, Conserv. Health, 176. Lienteries and all other Laskes.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. ii. 38. The slimy excretions voided in the lyantery.
1766. Amory, Buncle (1770), IV. 87. He has that flux of the belly, which is called a lientery.
1878. Kingzett, Anim. Chem., 72. In lientery, also, the pancreas appears to be affected.
