Middle English Dictionary Entry
dissenterie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dissenterie n. Also dissinter(i)e, dissentarie, dissentirie, dicentorie, discenteri. |
| Etymology | ML & OF (L dysenteria, from Gr.). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Dysentery; flux ~.
Associated quotations
- [ (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)94a/b : Dissenteria is a flux of þe wombe wiþ huldinge and schauynge of þe guttis and wiþ blody dritte. ]
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 28.8 : Trauelid with feueres, and dissenterie or flix [L dysenteria].
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.206va : Lepus siluestris: wode hare or feld hare .. The blood if it be fried in a friyng panne is good for dissintere long lestyng.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.36va (2.3) : A dissentarie is a wombe flux wiþ peyn of fretyng and knawyng in the wombe and in þe guttes and wiþ blody egestioun.
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 28.8 : Þo fader of þis prince laye..in þo yuel þat es called dissintery.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)37/30 : Þe dissenterie, þat is þe blody fluxe.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)9001 : Dyssentyrye..The reed flyx..hath spycys thre..of thre humours þei causyd be: As coler reed, fleum salt, & coler adust.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)123 : Ayenste dyssenterye the pacient schall holde his ryght ffoot in cold water upp to the testiculys.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)244/14 : Þis ys good for dyscentery.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)42/10 : Surripe for dicentorie. Take yzope and pylyoll [etc.].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)44/2 : Þis clistir is good for to helyn woundis, also þat comyth of þe flyx dicentorie.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)128/25 : Dissentyrye þe Grekys clepe þis sekenesse, whan a mannes guttys be hurt so þat þei be slitte or cutte.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. dysentery.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. flix dysentery.