Middle English Dictionary Entry
repair(e)ment n.
Entry Info
| Forms | repair(e)ment n. Also repeir(e)ment. |
| Etymology | OF reparement |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Med. The callus, or osseous matter, generated around a fractured bone, a repair.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)49/12 : Do þat pece [of chipped bone] away & regenere in þe place of þe boon þat..was lost a repeirement [Add: repairment; L reparamentum].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)49/19 : Caste þis poudre vpon þe defaute of þe boon þat is lost, til þat þou holde a pleynere repeirement [Add: repeyrment].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)76/14 : It myȝte make a good & a strong repeirement of þe boon þat was to broke.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)127/15 : Þei fulfillen þe wounde..as I haue seid..til þat þe kynde haue regendrid a repeirement, þe which schal fulfille þe place þere as þe boon was don awey.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)12a/b : Þer schal be amaner of restorynge ymaad in þe place of þe boon þat was broken or kutt, which is clepid Porus sarcoides or ellis caro porroides, for þat repeyrement is more neischer þan þe boon and hardere þan þe fleisch. But ȝitt þat forseid repayrement is nyȝe as hard as is þe boon, þanne it is clepid porus sarcoides.