parmaceti
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]parmaceti (plural parmacetis)
- Obsolete spelling of parmacety.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- […] God save the mark!—
And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;