Middle English Dictionary Entry
antidōt(um n.
Entry Info
| Forms | antidōt(um n. Also antitod, antitode; (pl.) antidotez, (?Latinate pl.) antidoda, antioda, antitoda. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A drug or medicine, a remedy; (b) ?pl a book of remedies, or the title of such a book [= antidotarie n.]
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)11 : Antidotum, quasi contra vitium aliquod datum. ]
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)6b/b : Þe first doctrine is of vniuersale antidotez or helpyngez.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)122/317 : Take a powder that is clepid antidotum ymagogum, drynke þerof with stale ale, and itt shall ese heme.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)81/12 : And wyn ys lyk þe kynde of serpentz of þe whilk Antidotum ys maad.
b
- a1500 *URufa Uroscopy (LdMisc 553)f.32r : Yif þis blod be crodded in þe wymmen, he schal semy with childe til hit be dissolued, as hit scheweþ in Antioda [vrr. antitod, antitode, antitoda, antidoda, the cure therof ; L in antidodam, vr. ?in antitodia].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Variation between -t- and -d- (-dot- -tod- -dod-) is found also in the Latin; so in Gower's Latin "antitodum"; cp. DMLBS s.v. antidotum n.
Note: The forms in -a under sense (b) are here taken as Latin plurals; other variants may be singular, and may belong to sense (a), as the glossing variant 'the cure therof' suggests.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. antidote.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. antidotum.