Middle English Dictionary Entry
maladī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | maladī(e n. Also malladie, maledi(e, malidi, malodi, melodi & maladẹ̄ & (errors) malaldy, madye. |
| Etymology | OF maladie |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A disease; also, disease in general, sickness; (b) mental affliction; also, madness; (c) lovesickness; (d) spiritual illness, sin, vice; (e) injury, wound, sore; (f) pain, suffering; sorrow.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)218/140 : Ure lord..spredde his hond and tok his lepre..and al so raþe he was i warisd of his maladie.
- c1330(?c1300) Amis (Auch)503 : For a malady [vr. melody] þat on him wes, At hom he gan to abide.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)182/3921 : Swiche grace god him gan sende And heled him of his maladie.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.419 : He knew the cause of euery maladye [vr. maledie], Were it of hoot or coold or moyste or drye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3993 : Syk lay the maunciple on a maladie [vrr. malady, Maledye].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.423 : The boce of the horrible swollen membres..semeth lik the maladie [vr. maledies] of hirnia.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.3221 : Thei sende in every lond aboute The yonge children forto seche, Whos blod..schal be leche For themperoures maladie.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.2642 : The thridde wif was hote Alceste, Which whanne Ametus scholde dye Upon his grete maladye, Sche preide unto the goddes so That sche receyveth al the wo.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)147/24 : Kyng Stephen..felle into soche a malaldy & deide in þe xix ȝer..of his regne.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.7896 : For siknes and sodeyn maladie, He was constreyned his presence to withdrawe.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)2982 : Þe fereth payn es sere malady Þat þe sauls sal haf in purgatory..Som for pride..Sal haf þar als a fever cotidiene.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4723 : A thurst drowned in dronkenesse, And helthe full of maladie, And charite full of envie.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)9/27 : Seint Peter, be whom god helede many maladies myraculusly, suffrede his dowter Pernylle to langure in a palsie.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)10b/a : Brancus: maladi.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.6.281 : He wol nat suffre that swich a man be moeved with any bodily maladye.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)103b/a : Þe whiche brennynge & akke encressen as þe maladie encresseþ.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)383/16 : It is schewed by alle leches þat the leper is þe werste maladye [*Ch.(1): sikenesse; L morbus].
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)390/757 : Ther sprong bi myracle fyue wellis clier, That been of uertu, helthe, and remedie Ageyn ful many straunge malladie.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.749 : He fill..Into a froward dedli maladie.
- ?a1440 Hortus (Brist-U)271 : Cronia: a long maladye.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)25.261 : Schal I deyen thus son, that thus am fallen In Maledye?
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2127 : Amendid of hire malidy [Dub: maledy] his modire he fyndis.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)31/11 : For alle maner hote maladijs of eyne.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)76/1 : For preuy maledye þat a man haþ taken of a womman.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1002/17 : There happened on her a malodye.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)15354 : Whan she hath any malladye, I make hyr sowpe yt vp a-noon.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)146a/b : Þe pacientis owen to obeien in alle maner þingis þat ben perteynynge to þe cure of here syknesse ouþir maladie.
- a1500 As in yow (Cmb Ff.1.6)7 : Ho but ȝe may me sustayne..but ye sone [haue] amendement of yowre Maledy?
- a1500 Diseases Women(2) (Sln 2463)74 : Ther ben manye women that hauen many diuers maladies and sekenesses.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)94/8 : Baume for any maner maladye of sore eyne.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.459 : He conceiveth That ilke unsely maladie The which is cleped Jelousie.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.6.39 : The maladye of perturbacion is crept into thi thought.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)2337 : He is mad hool of maledye for euyr more.
c
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1373 : And in his gere for al the world he ferde Nat oonly lyk the loueris maladye [vrr. maledye, madye] Of Heroes, but rather lyk manye Engendred of humour malencolyk.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1404 : His face was so disfigured Of maladie [vrr. malady, Maledy] the which he hadde endured.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3757 : For he was heeled of his maladye; Ful ofte paramours he gan defye.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.128 : For certes such a maladie..myhte make a wisman [read: wisman] madd.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.4855 : Love upon his part Cam thanne..That he mot nedes fiele and wite Of thilke blinde maladie.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.3167 : Lyke as it fareth of lovers..Þei haue no myȝt..to be ware..Her maladie is so furious.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.419 : Allas! what is this wondre maladie? For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I dye.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2394 : Whan thou bithenkist thee Of thy lovyng..Fro folk thou must departe in hie, That noon perceyve thi maladie.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1379 : O, often swore thow that thow woldest dye For love, whan thow ne feltest maladye Save foul delyt.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)36.200 : Othere Feciscians wenden Eche day that Sekyr ded he Scholde han be, but they knew not fulliche his Malade.
d
- c1390 Mirror St.Edm.(1) (Vrn)686 : He wol vs teche..Þis seuen medicines..To helen vs of seuen Maledius.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.9 : Therof he takth his maladie; That vice is cleped hot Envie.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.42 : Baal preestes ben bolde sacrifice to make, and mortel maladi crepith in as a canker.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.4.323 : For ryght so as langwissynge is maladye of body, ryght so ben vices and synne maladye of corage.
- (?a1430) Hoccl.MG (Hnt HM 111)117 : Beeth leches of our synful maladie!
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.250 : For as siknesse þe body doth distresse, Right so is vice a manere maladye, þe whiche a mannes soule doth oppresse.
e
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2706 : Men seyde eek that Arcite shal nat dye; He shal been heled of his maladye [vr. madye].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)120a/b : Y wille treten of woundes, enpostumes, brisures, brekinge of bones, & oþere maladies þe whiche fallen moste comunlie in þe armez.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)9579 : Kynges fele a-boute come And comfort him alle & some Off his hurtyng & malady, For his sorwe were thei drery.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)55/25 : Þu sall fynde in þe clathe a paste..in maner of a plaster..Lay it on þe malady & suffre it to lygge vn-to þe ȝokynge & swythyng be all passede a-waye.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)28 : He hadde a malady vn-meke a-myd þe face.
f
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.1001 : Scarsly may he..repenten hym for the greuous maladie [vrr. maledye, malady, maladyes] of his deeth.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.480 : Bot every merthe and melodie To hem was thanne a maladie.
- a1450(?c1405) Mannys soule (Dgb 102)38 : And he wyst hym self shuld go to helle, Counseyle no mo to come þer-ynne; Þe mo brondes, þe hattere brynne, Incresyng of his maladye.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)216 : Þi maladye A-bregge it schal, & þi malencolye.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. malady.