a. Obs. In 6 -ike, -ique, 7 -ick(e, -ic. [var. of SPLENETIC a. So obs. F. splenitique.] Splenetic, splenic, in various senses.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 6. The same … helpeth … such as are splenitike. Ibid., 555. The young leaues … are very good also to be eaten of suche as be splenitique.
1661. J. Childrey, Brit. Baconica, 60. The Waters are so good for Splenitick Diseases.
1671. Salmon, Syn. Med., III. xxii. 434. It attenuates, opens, cleanses, is Diuretick and Splenitick.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VIII. 297. Bleeding must frequently be repeated in the splenitick Vein.
