Middle English Dictionary Entry
pok n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pok n. Also poke, pock(e, pokke & (in surn.) poxe. |
| Etymology | OE poc |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A skin eruption, sore, pustule, pimple, etc.; ~ broken, marked or afflicted with such an eruption; mouled ~, a festering or putrefied sore; (b) sg. and pl. a disease of men and animals characterized by eruptive sores; (c) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)616 : Ore pleut a Deu qe tels foles Ussent faces pleins de veroles [glossed:] pokes [vr. pockes].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)98b/b : Þilke blaynes beþ Iclepid variole, þe pockes, in children and also somtyme in men of age..ȝif þe pockes brekeþ nouȝt ouȝt, hit is drede þat lepre comeþ aftirward.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)48 : Ieo ay ore les verolez..I haue now þyze pokkys.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)51a/a : Porigo: a pok.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)6a/a : To hele þe variolez, i. pockes, with þe cicatricez of þam.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)22a/b : Pusculez forsoþ bene litel apostemez & exiturez coniuncte or separate, as glandulez & variolez, i. pokkez, or bethorez.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)407 : Pokbrokyn: Porriginosus.
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)30/22 : Of disposiciouns of þe face..Of pockis wiþ her sicatrices or hoolis.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)102 : A plastre of þis wole..resolue þe pockes and welkes of þe face.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)286 : A Pokke: porrigo.
- a1500(?c1450) Florence (Cmb Ff.2.38)2022 : Mylys..was the fowlest mesell bredd Of pokkys and bleynes bloo.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)676/11 : Porrigo: a poke.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)42/19 : For to do a-wey þe moud pocke, þat ys, mal, in hys eyȝe.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)592/14 : Lenticula: a pokke.
b
- (1296-7) Acc.Cornw.in RHS ser.3.6667 : Multones..Inde in mortuis ante tonsionem 25, in quodam morbo dicto pockes, et post tonsionem 5..Inde in mortuis..post fetum et ante tonsionem 67, in quodam morbo dicto pocks.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)2253 : A ffold ffol of ffale sheep..were half y-schore Oþer skabbede in þe pokkes.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.358 : Of pokkes [vr. pokke] and of scabbe and euery soor, Shal euery sheep be hool that of this welle Drynketh a draughte.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.97 : Kynde come after with many kene sores, As pokkes and pestilences, and moche poeple shente.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)316 : Þat tyme a sikenes þat men called 'þe pokkes' slow boþe men and whymmen.
- (?1438) Let.Ferrers in WANHSM 18 (Lngl 3)12 : His brodere had ye pokkes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)407 : Pokke, sekenesse: Porrigo, variolus, vel morbulus.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)236/750 : For the pokkes, tak moch fenell and make juyse þeroff and hete it lew warme.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)306/461,465 : Seint Nicasse had a pokke small..He preyed to God..Þat qwo so indyrly hym besowte, þat he hym fro þe pockys schuld were.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)87 : Al so the same yere men and bestys were grettely infectyd with pockys.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)55 : It is good medsine for þe sekenys, and it is for þe evill þt is callid pokkes.
c
- (c1200) Doc.Ireland in RS 5321 : Nicol Pocke.
- (1271) Close R.Hen.III423 : Willelmo Poxe, civi London.
- (1273) Pat.R.Edw.I19 : William Poxe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pock.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pox.