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Benne (medicine)


benne
<botany> The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. Indicum), originally Asiatic; also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

Origin: Malay bijen.

Source: Websters Dictionary


difficilior lectio (iou)



difficilior lectio noun phr. . E20.
[Latin, from the maxim difficilior lectio potior the harder reading is to be preferred. See also LECTIO DIFFICILIOR.]
Textual Criticism. The more difficult or unexpected of two variant readings and therefore the one that is less likely to be a copyist's error; (the principle of) giving preference to such a reading.