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warish

verb /ˈwɒɹɪʃ/

  1. To cure or heal (an illness or a person).

    obsolete, transitive

    Varro testifieth, that even at this day there be some there who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.

  2. To get better; to recover from an illness.

    intransitive, obsolete

Where it comes from

From Middle English warysshen, from Anglo-Norman waris-, the present participle stem of warir, from Old French guarir (modern guérir), from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną. Compare guarish.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry warish (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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