Middle English Dictionary Entry
sanguin(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | sanguin(e adj. Also sangwin(e, sangwen(e, sangewin, sanguein, sangwein, sangwain, sangine & sanguinẹ̄, sanguinie. |
| Etymology | OF sanguin(e & L sanguineus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of a blood-red color; of a garment: made of blood-red cloth; also, of persons: ruddy, usu. as the result of a sanguine complexion; (b) dominated by the humor blood; ~ humour, the humor blood; (c) dominated by a sanguine complexion; (d) of diseased conditions: caused by an excess of the humor blood; (e) consisting of or containing blood; of bodily parts: formed from the maternal blood; (f) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1350) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.319 : xx vln. panni long. sangwyn. in Grano.
- (a1350) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3174 : j roba de scarletto sangwyn. in grano.
- (1378) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.16 : [A] sangueyn [kirtle worth 2 s.].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.25.4 : Ȝe schullen take gold & syluer..& purpur, þat is, sangwyn silc [alt. from: lyke blode].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.45.12 : An holy stole with gold & bliw violet silc & sanguyn silc [WB(2): purpur; L purpura], þe werk wouen.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2168 : His [Mars'] nose was heigh, his eyen bright citryn, His lippes rounde, his colour was sangwyn.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.333 : Of his complexioun he was sangwyn; Wel loued he by the morwe a sop in wyn.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)199b/b : If it is y-do in a basyn wiþ clere water, it chaungeþ þe sonne bemes..and breedeþ in þe ayer reede and sangwyn [L sanguineum] colour.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)310b/a : Synopis..is y-cleped Rubrica, ffor it is next to rede sanguine [L colori sanguineo].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4561 : For to telle forþe of Tantalus, Of sangwyn hewe, havyng moche of red.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)64b : Pympirnell..beryth a rede sangwyne colour.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)313/32-3 : Þere fill a sangweyn rayne, almoost like blood, at Burgoyne, and a sangweyn crosse, fro morwe vnto pryme, was seyn.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)436 : Make the potage of sangwayn colour for wyntur season.
- (1438) EEWills111/4 : To my wyf, all my stuff beyng at the Fasterne, except a sangwen gowne furred with martres.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)441 : Sangwyne, coloure: Sanguineus.
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30106 : To my doghter Issabell a chene of gold wt ij girdils, ye tone redde and tother sangvyn.
- c1450 Metham Physiog.(Gar 141)127/12 : Ther be in that cerkyl pale spottys..or sangwyne, or dunne, or blwe.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)15/16 : She sawe hym fair, sanguyn, broune, and high.
- ?c1450 Brut-1447 (Trin-C O.9.1)462/10 : The Maire hym-self was clothed in rede Crymsyn velwett..and then all the Aldermen in gownes of scarlet, with sangwyn cappes.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4940 : To Robert Harwel j be qwethe my lytel baselard harneysyd with silvir and a sangweyn schede.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)99 : Take turnsole..and when it is boilid, colour it vp blew or sangwene.
- a1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)31/237 : She [the stone heliotrope] is moche of the colour of the emerawde saue she hathe sangwayn dropes.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.455 : To the Sanguin complexion, Nature of hire inspeccion A propre hous hath in the livere For his duellinge mad delivere.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)296b/a : Expositours seyn þat some lyse gendren of sanguyn humour.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)315b/b : Þe bones ben malencolike, colde, & drye, and fleisshe in his kynde is sanguyne & swete.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)124b/a : Gode colour & flourshing is drawen to þe skyn of gode sanguine humours.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)17/1 : Jouis or Jubiter is a planete of softe condicion, amyable and ful gladde and figure to sangwen complexion.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)50a/b : Þe spere of þe eir..is hoot and moyst in kynde, & makiþ reed blood sangueyn & þicke.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)242b/b : Þe vse of peper is nought profitable to sanguyne men nouþer to colerik.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Mutability MN (Hrl 2255)81 : The sangueyn man of blood hath hardynesse.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)11/17 : Resceyue of Barbouris, of ȝong sangueyn men, or colerik men, whanne þei be late blood, þe which vse good wynes; take þat blood aftir þat it haþ reste.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)50b/b : Summen han moost of blood, and þo ben in complexioun sangueyn men, and her blood is reed & riȝt þicke.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)51b/b : He þat ys sangueyn is of a meene stature and reed of Colour and redisch.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)219/32 : Compleccions bene iiije, for a man is sangyne, or flevmatike, or colerike, or malyncoly.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)23b/23 : If the seke be yong and sangewyn and littill blode is comyn out of þe wounde, let hym blode on the contrary syde.
d
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)21a/a : Hote aposteme is sanguynye [L sanguineum] & coleric.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)21a/b : Of apostemez, Som bene of materie noȝt adust ne corrupted..And of aiþer som bene sanguyne.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)26a/b : Sanguine pusclez yuel and corrupt..bene al þo þat in þe brustyng out leueþ an escare.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)110a/b : Ventuse him bihynde on þe schulders, and þat is better in þis case when þat þe mater is more sanguine þen colerik.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)113b/a : Þe pacient schal ete no scharpe metes neiþer no salte metes, for al þe sekenesse ben engenderd of sanguine mater, þe whiche is adhuste.
e
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)34a/a : Euery body þat is sangwine roteþ sone and hastiliche, and namliche nyȝe a mannes bones.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)8a/a : Of þise [bodily members] som bene sanguine, To which bene verray reg[e]neracioun & consolidacion, ffor þai ar gendred of blode, as flesh & grece.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)8b/a : Þe more partie of his [liver's] particle is carnose & sanguine, And with þat many arteries bene sent to it.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)143a/a : Som is aneurismale sanguinee, for rupture of som arterie or veyne sendyng blode to it.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)9004 : Dyssentyrye..Sendyth owte sangweyn agestyoun.
f
- (1194) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.5240 : Johannes Sanguin.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. sanguine humour.