Middle English Dictionary Entry
satureie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | satureie n. Also saturege & (Latinate) satureia, saturea. |
| Etymology | OE saturege & L saturēia, ML saturegia & AF satureie. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Savory Satureia hortensis.
Associated quotations
- [ a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)167 : Serpillus, satureia uel saturegia idem, tota herba utimur: gallice, satureie. ]
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1423 : Nature..clepeth him [star] Botercadent..His herbe is cleped Satureie.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)218/24 : Take an houndis tord þat etiþ oonly boonis & of hennis, satureye ana, & make þerof poudre & distempre it wiþ water & hony & make þerof a gargarisme.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)41b/a : Diarundinem, in which be sigillate vertue of drie ficz fatte, calamenti, origani, or pullegij, ysop, satureie [Ch.(2): saueray; L saturegie], [etc.].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)197b/b : Scabiosa: Scabiose..Satureia: Satureia is h. & d.; Sansucus: Maiorane.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.336 : Forto make a wyn to drynke swete, Of saturege or fenel putte in meete.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Hrl 3840)203/10 : Saturea ys an herbe that me clepyth saueroye.