Middle English Dictionary Entry
pā̆stẹ̄ n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | pā̆stẹ̄ n.(2) Also pastei, pasti(e. |
| Etymology | OF pasté |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A meat pie, pasty; (b) a medicinal cake or pie; (c) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)644 : Y shal þe fete Bred an chese, butere and milk, Pastees and flaunes.
- ?c1335(a1300) Cokaygne (Hrl 913)54 : Al of pasteiis beþ þe walles, Of fleis, of fisse, and rich met.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4346 : For many a pastee hastow laten blood.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.2407 : This lord..bad ordeine for here mete Tuo Pastes whiche he let do make.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)385 : Pasty, or pye: Pastilla, artocrea.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)600/43 : Pastellus: a Pastey.
- (1456) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.492a : Payd to Hoget for his labour off makyng pastyes, dyting off the dyner and sooper, 16 d.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)490 : Venesoun bake..Kut it in þe pastey.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)631 : Open þe pastey lid.
- a1500(?a1400) KEdw.& S.(Cmb Ff.5.48)396 : He went and fett conyngys thre, Alle baken well in a pasty.
- a1500 Gloss Dict.Garland (Hrl 1002)127 : Pastillarii..vendendo clericis pastillos, [glossed:] pasteys, de carnibus porcinis.
- a1500 I shall you tell a full (BodPoet e.1)p.92 : Ich of them wyll sumwhat bryng..Pastes [vr. A pasti] off pigeons ore sum other thyng.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)303b/a : Of þis serpent vipera beþ y-made pastyes þat beþ y-cleped trosisci tyriacy, of þe whiche is y-made tiriacle, þat is, remedye aȝeins venyme.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)94/247 : Take spigarnel of spayne and comyn and annyse and sauge; bake it togedir in a pasty and breke it in a pott of good ale.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)280/909 : Take sauge and stamp it in a morter and put þerto as moch salt and mak littell pasties and put hem into an oven till þei be blak and brent.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)35/11 : Take sauge and stampe a lytel and put þer-to so moche of salt, and put in a pastey and bake hit tille hit be brend.
c
- (1269) Pleas Som.in Som.RS 3699 : Adam Pastey.
- (1296) Feet Fines War.in Dugd.Soc.1530 : Simon le Pasteymaker.
- (1322) Pat.R.Edw.II153 : John le Pasteymonger.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pasty.