royal touch
English
Noun
royal touch
- The touching of a diseased person by the hand of a king, with the purpose of restoring health; formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for royal touch under royal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)