Middle English Dictionary Entry
punctūre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | punctūre n. Pl. punctūres & (error) pucturez. |
| Etymology | L punctūra |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A small perforation or wound in a nerve; (b) the biting or stinging of a venomous animal or insect; also, the wound left by such biting or stinging; (c) pricking with a needle; puncturing with a needle in sewing a wound; (d) a pricking feeling, prickling.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)16/9 : If þat he be woundid in þe heed eiþer haue ony puncture [L puncturam] of ony senewe, it is nessessarie þat he reste & dwelle in stillenes.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)40/19-20 : If oonly he [a nerve] be prickid, þe wounde of þe skyn is hool, & þanne it is clepid a blynde puncture; eiþer þe wounde is open, & it is clepid an open puncture [vr. prikynge.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)5a/a : Of wondes of nerues and cordes & of ligamentz, of which is treted of puncture, i. pricking, of neruez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)9a/b : Þe neruous cordes þer be naked & apperyng fro þe flesh, Of which þe puncture is generatif of spasme.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)94b/a : Ȝif þe puncture of þe nerue be closed & ake sore, þan þu moste leie to ane emplaster.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)66b/b : Ech maner of wounde y-maad yn senewe, or it is maad ouerþwart or ellis it is maad in lenkþe or ellis it is maad oonly with puncture.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)156b/a : As touchinge þe cure of puncture of senewis, ffirst J wole treten of þe cure of large puncturis þat ben not empostymed.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)51a/b : Þise causez be made of bodiez inanimate, as swerd, staffe, stone..Or of animate, as of puncture [L punctura] of venenous bestez & morsure of wilde bestez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)57b/b : If it be of puncture of wilde bestez, be yt cured with tiriacle & ventosez vpon þe place.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)103a/b : It cummeþ sumtyme of puncture of venemous bestes, þe whiche puncture is not holpen anone or þe member be corupte.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)85a/b : Jn þe fifþe doctrine..it is tretid of þe bitynge of a scorpioun..where þu schalt vndirstonden þat þis is riȝt venymous, and his puncture is so sutil þat it may vnneþis be seen.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)111a/a : Ardours, i. brynnyng, & pucturez [read: puncturez] of nedilez & insensibilite in þe body.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)121a/a : Who þat wolde seie þat þe nerue schulde ake be cause of puncture of þe nedil, it is not so in dede.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)150b/a : It nediþ a more strongere & a deppere sewynge but if þer be ony drede of þe puncture of þe sewynge.
d
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)37b/a : He feleþ within þe eie puncture [Ch.(2): a prycchynge; L puncturam] & mordicacioun as if þer war grauel within it.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)118a/a : Þe enpostume is scharpe in figure & scharpenesse of akkeþ & puncture & redenesse declinynge to citrinite.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. puncture.