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MEDICINE
Definition of MEDICINE
noun
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English medicin, from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicīnus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”). The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc. Displaced native Old English lybb (“drug, medicine”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MEDICINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MEDICINE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEEIIMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once.
Words that start MEDICI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found MEDICINE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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