Middle English Dictionary Entry
quartain(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | quartain(e adj. Also -tein(e, -tan(e, -ten(e. |
| Etymology | From quartain(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In phrases: fever(es ~, ~ fever = quartain(e n.(a) [see also fever n. 3.(n)]; also, fig. spiritual estrangement [quot.: Chastising GC].
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)90b/b : Of a feuir quartane þat comeþ [of] kynde melancolia, þese beeþ þe signes..hit greueþ fro þe ferþe day to þe ferþe day wiþ grillinge and risinge of here in to þe poores furst, And þanne wiþ liȝt hete, & beþe foure & twenti houres in þe grettest trauaile and viij & fourty in reste..& kepiþ certayne tymes of accesse.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11828 : Ouer al þan was he mesel plain, and þar-wit had feuer quartain [Frf: quarten; Göt: quartaine].
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)54 : For the fever quarteyn..geder pulliol real with the rotes als mykel als the lekes and dry it.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)42a : Also medill þis erbe and barowis grece to-gadyr, and that is gode to hele..þe feuer quarteyn.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)60/37 : Gif it hym þat hase þe feuer quartane.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)129/11 : Of an vnresonable inclynenge of þe fleshli kynde and a derk pride priueli hid, bicause of suche vnstabilnesse..in sum men the quartan feuere is causid.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3152 : He hadde bothe palsy & þe feuere quarteyne.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)236/755 : Quarteyn feuer. Take iij leves of sauge, iij leues off mynt, iij corns of peper droken [read: dronken] in ale.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)236/757 : Drynk it for the feuer quarteyn afore þe quakynge come.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)954 : Ageyn feuerys quarteyn, It is medicyn souereyn.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)73.185(v.2:p.51) : In as moche as he hadde the quartan fevir, his brethern seid vnto hym that he shuld nat mown that nyght atteyn to the citee of Melan.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.249 : Marcus Porcius Caton..vexede with the fever quarteyn, did sle hym selfe.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)129 : Þe Feverquartayn: quartana; quartanus.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)25b/26 : Some be of cold mater, as feuer quarteyn, cotydyan is hot, thowe hir mater be cold.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.111 : Yf a man haue þe feuer quartene, take & grynd þis stone & drynke it with water of rose.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)38/12 : A medicine for þe feuere quartan.