Middle English Dictionary Entry
marī-gold(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | marī-gold(e n. Also -goldie, maregoulde & seint marie gold; pl. -goldes & -goulden. |
| Etymology | From Marī(e & gōld. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. cicorea, elitrope, golde, golden, rodewort.
1.
The common marigold Calendula officinalis; sometimes confused with chicory Cichorium intybus; seinte ~; ~ flour (lef, sed), the blossom (leaf, seed) of the plant used medicinally.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)55 : Another drynk to wounde: tak confery, marigolde, matfelon, mylfoyle.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)67b : Solsequium: Redewort [?read: Rodewort] oþer marygoldye [?read: marygoldys] yf a man be bit with any venym beste..hit heliþ him yf he ete hit.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)52/24 : Þe iuyse of solsiquii, marigold epithimated..with vinegre destroyeþ meruelously apostemez in þe pappes of wymmen.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)165/26 : When þer is vnkyndely hete in þe lyuer, putte þerto endyue, scariol, i. wylde letuse, marygolde [*Ch.(1): cicorea], and lyuer wort.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)386/19 : Take of fumyter..endyve..marygolde [*Ch.(1), L: cicoree]..lycorys, [etc.].
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)6/17 : Tak aueroyne, marygolde, & sawge & stamp it.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)66/33 : Stafiȝagre, caraway sedes, of marigolde sedis, of mustarde sedis..of ilkane of this..tak halfe an vnce.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)320/1053 : Tak..a grete quantitee of marigold flours; pull of the small chides fro the croppis þat is lyk saffron chyves.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)169 : Ad matricem. Tak marigolde leues, & wasche hem, & do þer to a good quantyte of hony.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)125/27 : For þe pestelence..Take..seynt-marie-gooldis, tansye, sorell..stampe hem, and drynke þe jus of þese.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)138/22 : For þe cankyr in þe mowthe. Take sauge, and maregowlde, and ȝarwe.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1310 : The marygold clepyd the elytrope. The burre..The syght of theym and of theyre yongly flowres Was verrey salue..to all my langowres.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)77b : Marygolde: Solsequium, sponsa solis, Elitropium.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Bal 329)203/25 : Solseqium ys an erbe þat me clapyth Roddys or marigoldys; he beryth a ȝelowe flowre.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)81/5 : Take 1 li. of seyngrene and 1 quatron of mary-goulden..late hem be stamped.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1425 Alphita (Sln 284)196 : Ydriomus…maior, habet florem rubeum, gall. pimpre, ualet ad incisionem prius sanguis exeat, pympre, angl. marie goldwert, secundum quosdam, an. sikelwert uel chikemete.
Note: New cpd.