parmaceti

English

Noun

parmaceti (plural parmacetis)

1. 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;