Middle English Dictionary Entry
sandal(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sandal(e n. Also sandel, sendal & (Latinate) sandali. |
| Etymology | OF sandale & ML sandalus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. saundre n.
1.
(a) The wood of one of several trees of the species Santalum, sandalwood; a small piece of sandalwood; also, powdered sandalwood; also, an ointment made of powdered sandalwood; red ~, the powdered wood of the red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus); whit ~, the powdered wood of the white sandalwood tree (Santalum album); (b) a dish colored with ground sandalwood or saffron.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)312/15 : Take marbil stoon & grinden smal, & alle þe sandalis [L omnes sandali], & solatrum..&..make a þing for to leie þeron.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)313/12 : Þis tent schal be diȝt wiþ a litil wex hoot & a litil sotil poudre of mastik & sandal.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)63/29 : Medicynez restrictyuez bene þise: Camphore..coriandre, sanguis draconis, sandali.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)2016 : The stomak anoynted..With the Onyment callyd Sandal.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)41/20 : Take þe flouris..and sethe hem in watir with powdyr of sandell.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)122a/a : Medle þerwith þe white of eiren, oile of rosis or violet, & þe sandal [?read: sandalis], boþe þe white & þe rede.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)166/12 : He must vse þe oyl confecte of sandel [Lambeth: sendall] and enylege.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)81/29 : It nedys to him þat ys dronkyn of wyn..þat he haue weleyghes and myrt, and with sandell confyt ennoynt his body.
b
- 1381 Dc.257 Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)69.34/1 : For to make sandale, þat perty to blomanger: tak flesch of caponys..& grynd egges and safroun or sandres togedere þat it be colourd.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1484 Burg.Pest.(1) (Trin-C R.14.52)584/139 : Ar than he go out of his chambre, yif the weder be reyny and the aire evil disposed, than lete hym smel rosis, violettis, floures of nemyfore, sandalos, [etc.].
Note: New form.