Middle English Dictionary Entry
rā̆dī̆cāl(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | rā̆dī̆cāl(e adj. Also radigal; pl. radical(es. |
| Etymology | L rādīcālis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Originating in the root or ground; (b) anat. & physiol. of bodily organs, parts, fluids, etc.: vital or fundamental to life; ?also, as noun: a vital or principal bodily part or organ; (c) original.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)221a/a : Þe onyoun..haþ þer vnder oþere rootes..and þerby..radical [L radicalis] humour is ysent in to al þe herbe.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)56b : Mineralls be nourisshid by mynistracione Of moistures radicall which their begyning was.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)89a/a : Þe blood wiþ inne chaungeþ þe radical membres out of here sauour.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)259b/a : In euery beste is a radical membre þat is welle and heed of alle þe vertues natural and spiritual.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)159a/a : Þu shalt nouȝt lede ptisicz..to þe vpper purgacionz bot..lene men suple after membrez fleshlike..nouȝt after radicalez [Ch.(2): rotely membres; L membra..radicalia] and spermatic.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)159a/b : Sith þat medicynez wirkeþ by lyknes..it noȝt fyndyng yuel humour noying, turneþ it selfe to þe flesh and to þe radicale humiditeez [Ch.(2): radical moystures].
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)313 : Of etikes ther be kyndes thre, But oon ther is pereilous..The which is, whan..Deeply profoundid is heete natural In thilke humydite i-callyd radical.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)228/718 : Tesyk..comyth..of þe distrucion of radigal moystire of a mans body.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)21/26 : The Power Vegetatif restith neuir, with hir doughtirs, Nutrityve, Formatyve, Assimylatyve, and Vnitive, which be continually werking in their forges in which bellowes blowen by spirituall membris of life, of moeving and of knowlage in reparing the hurte of the radicall humour.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)60b/a : Þe preuey stones ben..welle of humour seminal & first fundament radical þerof.