Middle English Dictionary Entry
fūmǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | fūmǒus adj. |
| Etymology | L fūmōsus, OF fumeus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Smoky (fire), vapor-like (cloud); (b) odoriferous (air, fume); odorous (thing); fumy (smell), smelly; (c) miry or swampy (soil).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)179a/b : Myste and fumous [L fumosis] vapoures.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)130b/b : [In the eye] þer is apperyng as a fumose cloude.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.317 : Pyttes of sulphur whiche receyvenge wynde gendre a fumose fyre.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)25b/a : Smel is nouȝt ellis but a substaunce of aier oþir of smoke þat comeþ of a body. Þis fumous aier and vapour [etc.].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)161b/b : Þanne he þroweth out of his jawys in to þe watir a fumouse smelle most stynkyng.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)31b/a : Fumous ventosite..semeþ to be raised vp fro som venemous materie.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)1878 : Watrys incertayn..bittir and fumous.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.317 : In this Scicille is the mownte callede Etna, hauenge..pyttes of sulphur, whiche, receyvenge wynde, gendre a fumose fyre.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)28a : Smellynge hath of organalles but one, Nothinge discerninge but fumose thinge alone.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)239b/a : In ground þat is cold oþer to moyste, to fatte oþer to fumouse [L limoso].
2.
Physiol. (a) Generating (injurious) 'exhalations' in the human body; of wine: heady; (b) like an 'exhalation', or surfeited with it; ?surfeited, tipsy; ~ fumosite, injurious or excessive 'exhalation'.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)75/8 : [Certain fruits] han a maner fumose properte greuynge þe heed.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)112 : So that the flete of Flaundres passe nought..Into the Rochell to feche the fumose wyne.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)1590 : The fumose wyne entered the brayne, Made them to slepe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)354 : Metes þat ar fumose in þeire degre.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)61a/a : Corrupt & fumous fumosite þat comeþ of somme corrupt humour.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)59a/a : To neruous particulez pacientz þer comeþ more redely fondnez þan to oþer, som tyme bi þe selfe hete ascending to þe heued after continuitee, somtyme forsoþ of a vaporous or a fumous spirite.
- ?a1450 Lanfranc (Add 12056)25/38 : Þat he myȝte brynge from þe longe eiþere [read: eire] to þe herte, for to entempren þe fumose hete of þe same herte.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)6848 : Whan they be fumous..And han yheete & dronke at large.
3.
Volatile, capricious; irascible.
Associated quotations
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.256 : His suerd, of rigour cruel..Hasti, fumous.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)1356 : Coleryk men..fumous of hastyness With smoke and ffyr haue greet Accordaunce.
- (1460) Paston (Gairdner)3.212 : [They] with here hevedy and fumows langage..dayly do uttyr lewd and schrewd dalyauns.