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clinical (iou) and THIRLAGE, Scotch law (law)


clinical (iou)



clinical adjective. L18.
[formed as CLINIC noun1 & adjective + -AL1.]
Medicine. Designating or pertaining to teaching given at the bedside of a sick person, esp. in a hospital, and (branches of) medicine involving the study or care of actual patients. L18.
clinical death: judged by direct observation of the individual's condition. clinical medicine: based on the observed symptoms. clinical THERMOMETER.
Ecclesiastical. Administered at the sickbed to one likely to die. Cf. CLINIC adjective. M19.
Coldly detached and impersonal; objective, dispassionate. E20.
b. Bare and functional, like a hospital. M20.
clinically adverb in a clinical manner; as regards clinical medicine, from the point of view of clinical medicine: M19.

THIRLAGE, Scotch law (law)


THIRLAGE, Scotch law. The name of servitude by which lands are astricted or thirled to a particular mill, and the possessors bound to grind their grain thirled to a particular mill, and the possessors bound to grind their grain there, for the payment of certain multures and sequels as the agreed price there, for the payment of certain multures and sequels as the agreed price of grinding. Ersk. Prin. B. 2, t. 9, n. 18. of grinding. Ersk. Prin. B. 2, t. 9, n. 18.