Middle English Dictionary Entry
innātūrāl adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | innātūrāl adj. Also innaturel. |
| Etymology | L innātūrālis & OF innaturel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Med. Of humors, heat: improperly compounded, unhealthy; also, excessive; of a protrusion: pathological; (b) lacking normal human feelings or attitudes; unrestrained, immoral, inhuman; (c) artificial, pretended.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)202/15 : Of fleume þere ben ij kyndis, oon is natural & þe toþer innatural.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)203/12,16 : Colre: sum is natural, & sum is innatural. Natural is liȝt & scharp & reed in colour..Of colre innatural ben v maners, as citrina, [vitellina], adusta, prassina, & eruginosa. Colera citrina is medlid wiþ subtil fleume. Colera vitellina is medlid wiþ greet fleume.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)147a/a : Excessyue innaturale [*Ch.(2): vnkyndely; L innaturalis] hete of þe reynez in ȝong men is cause of sudan gendryng of þe stone.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)101b/a : Summe of þes enpostumes..cumme of haboundaunce of naturel humours, & summe cumme of haboundaunce of innaturel humours.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)124a/b : When it declines to þe tone partie oþer þe toþer, þu schalt sene ane innaturel eminence openlye.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)144a/b : Alle maner superfluites of vlcus oþer of olde sores ben allonelye engenderd of innaturel hete.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)60/4 : Innatural humours may be gendred in oþer place þan in þe lyuer.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)19b/b : Ther beþ þerfore 4 natural humours & 4 Innatural, & a watryhede þe whiche olde men named blood, flewme, colre, and melancolie.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)52a/b : Þer ben two maner of coler..coler naturel & coler innaturel. Coler innaturel is þat þat goiþ out of kynde for contrarious or a straunge þing y-medlid wiþ him, & of him is engendrid Terciana vera.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)54a/a : Malancolye innaturel is þat þat whanne þer ys a colerik humour compowned wiþ malancolye.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)94b/a : Al þe moisture of þilke senewy membris bigynneþ for to roten þoruȝ þe innaturel hete of þat quytture.
b
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)459 : Þer ben so manye kyndis of in natural malencolie þat aman wolde wene þere myȝte neuere be..conceyued so wondirful..effectis.
- (1465) RParl.5.511b : The same Humfrey, as an unkynde and innaturall man, and fals to his Liege Mageste, traiterously adhered unto the seid Henry late called Kyng.
- (1475) RParl.6.145a : John Veer..Thomas Veer..in the..high fest of Ester day..togider assembled theym, with grete multitude of his innaturall Subgiettes, Rebelles and Traytours.
c
- c1450 Metham Physiog.(Gar 141)141/8 : Ther be tweyn meuyngys the qwych be in vse..j one ys natural, and a-nodyr comyth off fyndyng off mennys wytt..Thise iij be spycys innatural as of the gate and the meuy[n]g off sundry personys.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.62ra (2.8) : Melancoly innatural is causede þorgh adustioun of colre.
Note: Additional quot., sense (a).