Middle English Dictionary Entry
quartain(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | quartain(e n. Also -tein(e, -tan(e. |
| Etymology | OF cartaine, quartaine, -teine & L quartāna. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An intermittent fever with attacks recurring every third day, quartan fever; ~ interpolate; ~ continue (continuel, continuam), a remittent fever with greatest intensity every third day; double ~, a fever with paroxysms twice every third day; (b) fig. spiritual estrangement; double ~, sloth.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.249 : Marcus Porcius Latro Latinus..slowȝ hym self for noye and sorwe of a double quarteyn [L duplicis quartanae].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)90a/b : Som ffeueres þat comeþ & goþ comeþ of simple humour I-rotid wiþ oute þe veynes & pipes, as of kynde flewme comeþ a verray cotidiane, Of red colera a tercian, of blak colera a quartane.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)91a/a : Othir maner ffevere quartane..comeþ wiþ mellinge of som oþir humour..in such quartanes signes beþ diuers, þat beþ I-medlid wiþ melancolik humour.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)310a/b : Blak vryne may be tokne of dyuers disposiciouns and contrarie..and tokneþ somtyme solucioun of þe quartayne.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)110b/a : And þer helpeþ þise retencioun, i.wiþholdyng, of melancolious superfluiteez, as of emoroides, menstruez, variolez, quartanez [Ch.(2): quartaynes].
- a1425 *Trev.Barth.(Mrg M 875)94a/b : And sumtyme melancolie roteþ in veynis & pipes & bredeþ a quartane continuel [L quartanam continuam]; The tokenis þerof beþ continuel hete but most alwey fro þe firste day to þe fourþe day.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)419 : Quarteyne, fevyr: Quartana [Win: Quartaria], quartella.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)60/21 : Þe feuer þat is callede þe quartane takes a man or a woman ilk thirde day.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Look TM (Hrl 2255)39 : Whan he [lion] is moost furyous in his myht, Ther comyth a quarteyn.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)123 : Yf the chyne of the pacient be rubbyd..with peper & oyle..thou schalte knowe wele that it wole turne sone the quartane into a continuall fevere.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)72 : Tak in þe same manere iv rotes of þis herbe..and it wole put a-way þe quartan.
- c1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)32/15 : Who so ete..of alibi Amei 7 dragmes and of swete grapis and Reysynes..he shalle haue no quarteyne.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)79/22 : For tercianys & quartanys.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)114b/b : Of þis malancolie putrefied þer ben iij maners, of whiche þat oon is among þe grete veynes..& it makiþ Quartain continuam.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)26a/4-5 : Malencoly..rotid..if it occupy all the body, or it is withyn the veynys, and than makythe he quarteyn continue, or it is with out þe veynys, and þan makythe he a quarteyn interpolate.
- ?a1500 Veynes þer be (SeldSup 73)82 : The veynes yf þou vse..The quarteyne þou may voyde Awaye.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)613 : Who hat..The tercyan, þe quartan, [etc.].
- 1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)2401 : Cotidien ne quarteyne, It is nat so ful of peyne.
b
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)129/18-19 : Out of þis quarteyn, þat is clepid alienacioun, sum men fallen into anoþer feuere, þat is clepid double quarteyn, þat is to seie, necligence or sleuth, whiche is lyueng wiþout charge of besynesse; þan is þe fourþ dai doubled.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. quartan.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. continual quartan.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. continue quartan.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. double quartan.