physic finger
English
Etymology
Calque of the Latin digitus medicus.
Noun
physic finger (plural physic fingers)
- the ring finger
- 1988, D. August Hunt, The Road of the Sun, →ISBN, page 8:
- […] Iasius ('healer') is the physic finger; Idas ('he of Mount Ida' — Rhea's seat) is the oracular little finger.
- 1998, Douglas Monroe, The Lost Books of Merlyn: Druid Magic from the Age of Arthur, →ISBN, page 322:
- Alder, physic finger, By power of divination,
Diagnose all maladies of a doubtful mind.
- 2004, Nathaniel Harris, Witcha: A Book of Cunning, →ISBN, page 107:
- From the confessions given by these witches, it seems that their initiation was sealed by a mark made with a pin prick upon the upper and middle joints of the physic finger.
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Synonyms
- gold-finger
- leech-finger
- marriage finger
- medical finger
- medicinable finger
- medicinal finger
- physical finger
- physician finger
- ring-finger
- ring-man
- third finger