Middle English Dictionary Entry
fistūle, -ula n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fistūle, -ula n. Also fistole, fustula, fistle. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A reed instrument, shepherd's pipe; (b) the drug cassia fistula.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)334a/b : A pipe hatte fistula for voice comeþ þerof.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)218a/a : Canel..is worþ in medicyne þe double fistula.
2.
Med. A deep-seated ulcer or infection with one or several pipe-like outlets; fistule goutte (cp. fistulat gout under gout).
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)98a/a : Fistula, festir, fretiþ noȝt but rotiþ wiþinne and makeþ þe fleisch rotye and þe senewes schrinke.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)289/9 : Of Emeroidis and fistule in þe ers.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)357/17 : The xij co is of fistulis.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)50 : This oynement is merueylous..aȝenst þe canker and fistoles and farsyns and oþer quyk euelis.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)30a : Þe juis y-dronke with white wyne..heliþ cankris and fistula.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)66a : A sekenys that lechis callith fustula.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)46a/a : He bredeþ a fistle of which þe curacion is yuel.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)85b/b : Fistule is an vlcere profound & cauernous wiþ a callosite, hardnez, of þe ynner party, of which procedeþ as often tyme virulent sanie..som is in flesh, som in veynez, Som in neruez, Som forsoþ in bonez..Som is in iuncturez..Som in þe chekez, Som in þe breste, Som in þe shameful or priue placez.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)13/24 : A fistule is noȝt ellez þan ane vlcus vndesiccable.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)20/25 : A fistule is a depe aposteme, hauyng oonly oon hole somtyme, and ofte tymes two or þre, and oftymes mo.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)34/29 : Also þer bene som men þat haþ fistules noȝt apperyng outward.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)47/17 : A fistule goutte in þe legge aboue þe ankle.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)100/13 : A-noþir man..had in his foot a soor whech þei clepe þe fistula.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)SSol.4.14 : A closed gardyn..þyn owt sendingis..narde & safrun, fystula, & canel.
Note: Antedates word
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fistula.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fistule.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fistule gout.