Middle English Dictionary Entry
dōmestic adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | dōmestic adj. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Prepared or made in the home; household (remedy); (b) of an herb: cultivated; (c) of a bodily organ or part of the body: towards the center of the body, inner.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)62a/b : With cold þingez, stipticus domesticus [*Ch.(2): homely colde and stiptyk medecynes]..resolutif domestic [*Ch.(2): homely] is made of wyne, hony & salt.
b
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)22/26 : A good quantite of rewe domestik.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)130a/a : [Vngula] bredeþ of þe lacrimali domestic [*Ch.(2): homely or ynner lacrimal] of þe partie of þe nose.
- c1400 Veynes þer be (Wel 406)p.190 : Bynethe the knokelys of the fete Wyth two weynis thow myȝt mete: Wythin settyt domestica, Wythoute settyt salvatica.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1450 Veins in Vicary Anat.(Eg 2572)230 : Þe vayn vnder þe ankylle with-owten, þat is called domestica, for þe bledder, and for yuelle humors .. þe vayn vnder þe ankylle with-owten, þat es callyd saluatica, for þe sciatike and for þe emorodys.
Note: Belongs to sense (c).