Middle English Dictionary Entry
repercussī̆f n.
Entry Info
| Forms | repercussī̆f n. Also repercussive, -cuscive & (error) repercussist; pl. repercussif(e)s, -ives. |
| Etymology | From repercussī̆f adj. & ML repercussīvum n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Med. (a) Medicine that drives back or disperses pathological congregations of humors; (b) ?the quality of being repercussive.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)98a/b : If þe matere be woodand venemous..me schal nouȝt legge repercussifs to þe sore..lest þe venemous matiere be smyte inward..and be cause of more gref and noye.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)98b/b : Aboute þe yȝen..legge som liȝt repercussif lest þe quittir of bleynes hurte som kertil of þe yȝe oþir þe blak.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)209/16,17 : Þou must purge þe matere or þou leie þerto ony repercussijf..forwhi a repercussist [read: repercussif; L repercussiuum] mai not do awei al þe matere, þouȝ it sumwhat aswage þe akynge.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)210/14-15 : Þou schalt make noon repercussif in hote enpostyms, as þou schalt fynde þe maner in þe antidotarie of repercussifs.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)23b/b : Forsoþ making distynccioun of repercussyuez, þat some bene proprely seid repercussyuez..sich þingez which repelleþ, i. putteþ agayne to þe depnez or to þe grounde þe materie þat þay fynde; And som be said largly repercussyuez..þat in alteryng defendeþ þe membrz of receyuyng of superfluiteez.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)159a/b : Þer ben oþere repercussiues þe whiche be not verreilye stiptik..as arrage, mercurial malowes, violet, colde water.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)83/21 : Þe þridde entencioun is fulfilled by medycynes þat voyden þe mater fro the place..nouȝt only be swetynge farmacies but by repercussyues.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)583/35 : A repercussif..is þat þat smyteth in the humours toward þe botume to þe whiche þat it approcheþ.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)27b/27 : Lay ther to repercussiue as þe Iuse of solatre and of purcelane.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)28a/6 : If the mater drawe to wheter whan þou hast leyd a repercusciue or A resolutiue, hy the fast with a maturatyue þat I shall teche the.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)166a/b : Which [medicines] in þer maner bene seid substancialez, as þo þat be to haue repercussif [Ch.(2): haue to smyte aȝeyne; L habent repercutere].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. repercussive.