Middle English Dictionary Entry
gladen(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gladen(e n. Also gladeine, gladoine, gladone, gledene, (early) glædene, (in place names only) glade. |
| Etymology | OE glædene, gledene. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A plant of any of several species of the genus Iris, as I. pseudacorus, I. germanica, I. foetidissima; also, a part of such a plant (esp. the rootstock) used in medicine or painting, orris-root; ~ rote, rote of ~; (b) ?a plant belonging to some genus similar to Iris.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)98.62/1 : Þeos wyrt, þat men gladiolum & o[þrum] nama gladene [n]emneð.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)35/11 : Nim þanne..glædene more [L gladioli] and swearte mintan.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)45/4 : Nim gladenan and hlutter pic and meng togadere.
- c1225 Wor.Bod.Gloss.(Hat 76)20 : Gladiolum: gledene.
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)556/15 : Gladiolum: flamine, gladene.
- ?a1350 Recipe Painting(1) in Archaeol.J.1 (Hrl 2253)65 : Ȝet for gaudegrene, Tac peniwort other gladene, whether thu wolte of the two erbes, ant tempre thi verdigres, ant writ.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)3a : With hony and gladeyne hit clensiþ wondis.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)28b : Gladoyne ys hote and drye in þe secounde degre.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)64a/b : Yreos, i. gladen þat haþ purpour floures.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)110b/b : Acorus, i. gladen, & grownde yve ben hadde in frendeschip to alle ioyntes.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)190a/b : For þe polipe..a tente of þe rote of gladen tempered in oyle of Iunypre.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)64 : Cegge, or wylde gladone: Accorus.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)16/1 : Tak þe jewse of gladyn & temper it with gud alde wyne.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)66/21 : Off hate rotes..rutes of gladyn, rotes of yrislirik.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)161/15 : Gladiolus is an herbe þat men clepe gladene [vrr. gladyele or gladyne, gladyol or gladyn or bladyn, gladen or bladyn]..it haȝt a ȝelwȝ flour and it growith in water.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)79 : Medle with þe forseide [smerewort] two gladens and þer-with oynte þe gomes.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)100 : Gladene in englissh is clepid iris in latin, for his floures hauyn colour like þe reinbowe..This herbe is hote and drie in þe IIde degre, but in þe rotes of þis herbe is her moste vertue.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)101 : A decoccion of gladen rotys wole make nessh þe hardnesse of þe matrice.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)152 : Þis iuus helt in þe nose with oile of gladene wole make to renne oute þe blode þat noieþ þe hede.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4094 : Sone was he dreuyn..in-to a dryi meere, Was full of gladen & of gale & of grete redis.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)155 : For þe eluene, Take þe rote of gladene, & make pouder þer of.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)590/37 : Iris, anglice dicitur flourdelys; et Ireos, anglice gladyyn.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)111/11 : Take þe lefys of gladyn, and stamp hem with hony.
b
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)81.24 : De bulbo scillitico (anglice Gladene).
- c1225 Wor.Bod.Gloss.(Hat 76)20 : Bulbiscillitici: gledene.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)608/23 : Ruberca, quodam herba, anglice Gladyne.
2.
In place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.202].
Associated quotations
- (1242) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)435 : Gladefan.
- (1261) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)435 : Gladefen.