Middle English Dictionary Entry
ē̆lectūārie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ē̆lectūārie n. Also eletuarie, electuare, eletuare. |
| Etymology | L ēlēctuārium; especially for form without final -ie, also cp. OF electuaire (var. electuare). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. letuarie.
1.
A medicine in which the ingredients are combined with honey or syrup to form a paste.
Associated quotations
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.107rb : Briddis tungge, pigil, crampwort or schotwort: this herbe hatz smale long leues, scharp beforn lyk a briddis tungge; grene it is of mikil migth, drie noon. It encreceth blood, and so eten it stireth to þat doing. To þe same: an electuare mad of þe flesch of dates & of þe inward of festu. (If þou may not haue festu, do with ious of briddes tunge or with þe leues stamped & with hony.)
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)87a/b : Difficulte of breþinge..be it I holpe wiþ colde & moist oynementis, electuaries & sirupes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)92a/b : Þe stomak schal be..I comfortid wiþinne wiþ hote electuaries & wiþoute wiþ hote oynementis.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)237/1 : A good electuarie [to purge choler].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)238/7 : Diatrion piperion or anoþer hoot eletuarie.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)278/3 : Þis eletuarie [to break the stone]..R[ecipe] cineris vitris, caulis, cineris leporis combusti..make alle þese wiþ good hony.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)99 : Puluerez, confeccionis & electuariez.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.Diet.(Sln 3534)80 : It is a chief electuary [vr. dietary].
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)70/6 : Þe electuary of the tree of Aloes þat ys foundyn yn bokes of medicynes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Henry Daniel's Herbal (Add 27329) offers, alongside the single example given here and two others with 'electuare,' one of 'eletuare' and one of the Latin 'electuarium.' Daniel mostly prefers 'letuare / -ie', q.v.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. electuary.