Middle English Dictionary Entry
frēting ger.(1)
Entry Info
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Biting, gnawing; (b) a gnawing or rankling pain, an ache; ~ of the beli (guttes), stomach ache; (c) the 'biting' (of frost).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)215b/a : Wormode kepiþ and saueþ bookes and cloþis fro fretynge of myes and of wormes.
- c1410 Mirror Sinners(1) (UC 97)439 : Theer schal bee fretynge of wormes.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)50/34 : Grystynge of teeth, fretynge of wormys venemose.
- a1500 Tundale (Adv 19.3.1)950 : Fro hed to fotte ay was gnawyng, Scrattyng, fretyng, fleyng, and styngyng.
- a1500 GRom.(Add 9066)278 : The thirde day after she died, as by fretyng of the addres.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)273b/b : Bugle mylk helpeþ aȝens fretyng and gnawynge of þe guttes.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)39/11 : In dissenterie he shal fele fretyng about þe nauyle and þe flankes.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)81a/b : Wiþ the same oyle & done so ofte til þat the akþes and þe fretynges [L torsiones & dolores; *Ch.(1): þe akyngz & þe tortionz] be staunched.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)73 : Chervynge, or fretynge in þe wombe: Torcio.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)179 : Fretynge, payne yn' þe wombe: Torcio.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)138 : Persile prouokyþ vryne and aswageþ þe fretyng of þe bely.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)138/374 : For gnawyng and fretyng in a mannys lymmes or bones or syde.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)34/25 : Who so whasche hym with-owtyn þerwith on hys wombe, it benemyth þe fretynge and þe gnawynge.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)133/8 : Hir wombe bolned not, ne no maner risyng had sche of skyn ne flesch, but fretyng and prikkyng, speciali a-boute hir hert.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.607 : Fretinge of..frost, Where-þoruȝ ful ofte moche fruit is lost.
2.
(a) Corrosion; (b) a mold or blight.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)177a/b : Cerusa is ruste or freting of lede.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)179 : Fretynge: Corrosio.
b
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)3 Kings 8.37 : If that hungre were growen vp on the erthe, or were pestilence, or corrupt eyr, or fretynge [L aerugo; WB(2): rust], or locust, or rust.
3.
Med. (a) The corrosion or destruction of bodily tissue; ?also, corrosiveness; (b) the condition of being corroded or eaten away; (c) the use of a corrosive medicine; (d) the process of removing tissue by constricting it with a loop of thread.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)341/30 : A poudre þat is mundificatif..wiþoute greet violence of fretyng.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)46b/b : Some tyme it is vlcered and it ledeþ to corrocioun .i. fretynge and to corupcioun of þe flesche.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)116b/b : Bolnynges and byles and fretynges [*Ch.(1): corrosionz].
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)132 : Cockull..wole clense hem and cure fretynges and etyng woundes.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)193 : These instrumentis helpiþ..nat in turmentyng..neiþer in fretyng..but in softe likynnge.
b
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)58/15 : Fretyng of þe veynez, þat is called diabrosis.
c
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)92a/b : Slee þe fistle..in anoþer maner by fretynge or gnawynge [L per corrosionem].
d
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 277)22/40 : Cuttyng with yren, or fretyng with a threde strengely yfestned.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 277)29/7 : Þof-al it be bounden riȝt streitly..ȝitte vnneþe schal þe fretyng be complete in som men by a moneþ or thre wekez.
4.
Rubbing, scraping.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)200b/a : Rust is..doon away..by fretyng of a sawe or of fyle, or by fretyng of an hard stoone.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)82 : Þis kynd, if it be hotte in þe sone with fretyng of fynggers, it wol þraue to himself straues & leevys of bokys.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.36va (2.3) : A dissentarie is a wombe flux wiþ peyn of fretyng and knawyng in the wombe and in þe guttes and wiþ blody egestioun.
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (BodeMus 187:Harvey)f.2v (1.3) : Þer þe mater comeþ in, þer it most go oute. & þat may it noȝt but þorgh mordicacioun, i. þorgh bytyng & fretying..of þe galle.
Note: Additional quots. New spelling: fretiing.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fretting.