medicst (mediks)

[Pl. of medic1: see -ics.] The science of medicine. In medicks , we have some confident undertakers to rescue the science from all its reproaches and dishonours, [and] to cure all diseases. J. Spencer, Prodigies, p. 402. ( Latham .) me diet as linguæ (mē-di'e-tas ling'gwē). [L.: me diet as , middle, middle course, half (see moiety); linguæ , gen. of lingua , tongue, speech.] A jury composed half of natives and half of foreigners (hence said to be de medietate linguæ , of half-tongue), formerly allowed under the English common law for the trial of an alien. In the United States the practice is still permitted by the laws of Kentucky. mediety (me-di'e-ti), n.; pl. medieties (-tiz). [= F. médiété (verna vernacularly moit ié, > E. moiety ), The middle state or part; half; moiety. Which [sirens] notwithstanding were of another description, containing no fishy composure, but made up of man and bird; the human mediety variously placed not only above but below. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 19. The archdeacon of Richmond [in 1246] granted the me diety of Poulton and Biscopham to the priory of St. Mary, Lancaster. Baines, Hist. Lancashire, II. 507. There were two rectors, the living being held in medieties. Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 715.