Middle English Dictionary Entry
ambrōse, -ie, -ine n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ambrōse, -ie, -ine n. Also amerose, amarose. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Ambrose, wild sage, wood germander Teucrium scorodonia; (b) peti ~, a different plant, probably yarrow Achillea millefolium; (c) ?maidenhair fern Adiantum capillus-veneris.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)55 : Tak..ambrose.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)5a : Ambrose ys an erbe that some men calleþ wilde sauge oþer wode merche oþer hyndale.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)72b : Sawgge ys of ij maner, tame and wilde, the wilde ys called ambros oþer empatorye [read: eupatorye].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)11 : Ambrose, herbe: Ambrosia, salgia silvestris.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)34/20 : Tak..ambros leues.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)219/2 : For a sore bak..Take ambrosyne and sawge be euyn porcioun.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)76 : Take amerose [Roy: ambrose; Sln 405: amerose i. wilde savge].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)178 : Tak..amarose.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)48/1 : Take..watircressys, ambrosye.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)94/9 : Take ambrose, þat is þe wylde sawge.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)11/20 : Ad purgandum pectus: Take rewe and ambrosy.
b
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.35r : Ther ys anoþer maner erbe [þat] is ek called yarus or jarus minor, 'þe pety yare,' not for it is lasse (for it is more), but f[or] þe leuys arn smallere & narwere;: þat we callen myllefolium, 'mylfoyl,' 'ȝarwe.' Alphita þus: Millefolium, ambrosia minor, pety ambrose, is sote. Also millefolium maior, supercilium Veneris, jarus minor, ymeron or ymerona or ymeronya.
c
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)117/2 : Take..ambrose, þat men callyn copillus veneris.