Middle English Dictionary Entry
sanicle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sanicle n. Also sanigle, sanigil, sanegle, sinekle, sinagle, cinigle & (errors) sanyele, savygill. |
| Etymology | OF sanicle, senicle, sanigle, senigle & ML sanicula, AL senicula. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The European sanicle (Sanicula europaea); (b) a type of orchid.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)166/12 : Senicula similis auencie est, sed duriora et lucida habet folia et uiridiora; gallice, sanicle. ]
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)53 : For the rancle and bolning..tak avaunce, matfelon, yarow, and sanygill and stamp tham.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)72a : Savygill [read: Sanygill] ys hote and dry.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)67/8 : Gedir theis herbis..bugill, pigill, sinagle, herbe Robert.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)71/31 : Bugill & sanegle haldes þe wondes fra perell.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)189 : Sanycle hauyþ her name for-þi þat she helyþ woundes.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)276/893 : Take..an handfull of rede cole, of strawbery withis, of sanyele.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)137 : Ȝef him to drinke þeose þre erbes þre dayes: pimpernelle, bugle, & sanicle.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)62/9 : Take pugle [read: bugle], pygle, synekle, betoyn.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)121a/a : R[ecipe]: Bugle, sanicle, auence, [etc.].
- a1500(?a1450) Treat.Garden.(Trin-C O.9.38)173 : Of al the herbys of yrlonde Here þu schalt knowe meny onde..Merege, lauyndull, radysche, sanycle, & seueny.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (LdMisc 553)202/25 : Sanicula is an herbe þat me clepuþ sanicle or wodemerch.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)117/19 : Take þe rote of madir, auence, bugle, cinigle, [etc.].
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)27/2 : A goud oynement for woundes and eueryche sor þat þou smerist þer-with..Take pigle, bugle, and sanigle, [etc.].
b
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)613/33 : Sanycle [glossing Dict.: Stinctum, i. satirion].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450 Rwl.Cook.Recipes (Rwl D.1222)52.44/4n. : Floures of synycle [Add 46919: nim grapes].
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