Middle English Dictionary Entry
scabbed(e adj.
Entry Info
Forms | scabbed(e adj. Also scabbut, scabde, (error) skabbeb. |
Etymology | From scab(be n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. shabbed(e adj.
1.
(a) Afflicted with scabies; suffering from some eruptive skin disease; scabby, mangy, etc.; (b) of the eyelids: suffering from redness, itching, inflammation, etc.; (c) inflamed; purulent, ulcerated; (d) having a scab; (e) fig. afflicted (with sin); (f) in terms of contempt: dirty; contemptible, wretched.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)206 : F. ad la cov roynouus: W. hath the wriste scabbut.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.242 : I [Fortune] the sauh..Scabbid, scuruy, scallid, and oncleene On bak and body.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)164/1 : Ilk man..þat was owder crukyd-bakkid or skabbid..he sulde hafe of þaim a peny.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)108a : Scabbyd [Monson: Scabyd]: Scaber, Scabidus, Scabiosus.
b
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)112b/b : Þei [redness and itching] cumme boþe of mater þe whiche is adhuste, þe whiche mater, ȝif it go to þe yȝe liddes, it makeþ hem scabbed.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)59a/b : In drinke it [urine] helpiþ splenetikes & cle[n]siþ rotid woundes & scabbid [L saniosa] places.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)186/17 : Anoynte his heed wiþ oile of camomille..hile his heed wiþ caule leuis, & þus þou schalt do manie daies til þe skyn be more scabbid [L vlcerata] þan it was.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)246/789 : For handis þat ben scabbid of clawynge, take the rote of the dok, [etc.].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)126/8 : A meruelliows drink..sleth cancre, festre, and þe skabbyd heete.
d
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)287/26 : Afterward þe same membre be made scabbed [*Ch.(1): scabbie; L scabiosa] aȝeyne.
e
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)4.356 : Thou art meke..And..Rightfull..criste Ihesu..More Redy ay to saven and to cure All that been sore, and scabbede eke with synne.
f
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.282 : Þou scabbed Scotte, þi nek, þi hotte, þe deuelle it breke.
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)196/297 : Whom callest thou 'queane', scabde dogge?
2.
(a) Of animals, parts of their bodies, or hawks: afflicted with a type of mange; covered with sores; also fig.; (b) in sayings involving animals; (c) of resin: ?rough, lumpy; ?blotchy; of parts of vines: scurfy, scaly.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2449 : He..dunten him..And keste him on a scabbed mere.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2505 : Þei garte bringe þe mere sone, Skabbeb [read: Skabbed] and ful iuele o bone.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)2253 : A ffold ffol of ffale sheep..were half y-schore, Oþer skabbede in þe pokkes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)147a/a : The gnatte..is ful noyeful to scabbid hors and sore backed.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)278b/b : Houndes..ben þanne sore agrieued wiþ flies þat beþ aboute here..skabbede eeren.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)278b/b : Þe scabbede [L vlcerosus] hound is..y-drawe out of þe dunghill with a rope.
- c1400 PPl.C (Cmb Dd 3.13)10.264 : Scabbed [Hnt HM 137: Thyne sheep are ner al shabbyd; þe wolf shiteþ woolle].
- a1425 PPl.A(1) (UC 45)8.17 : Scabbide [Trin-C: Bisshopis..prechen here personis þe periles of synne, How þat shabbide shep shulde here wolle saue].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)442 : Scabbyd schepe: Apica.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)107/289 : Twies on þe day grece him on þe scabbede stedus.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)15 : For a scabbyd hawke: Take old grece, brymston, and cinomome and confye efere and anoynt þe scabbe to the fire.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)439 : Þe þridde offiss þat falliþ to persouns is to greese þer scabbid sheep & to telle hem medicyn of goddis lawe wherby þat þey may be hool.
- a1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)35/345 : Yef pouder be made of it & be sowyn amonge shepe that be clene wasshyn, they shall no moore be scabbed.
b
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)190/33 : As þou seest well, a man with skabbed hondes shall not clense a-noþurs eyn.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)114 : Riht as a scabbed beste hateth hors comb and sor hed a comb, riht so hate j techinge and counseil.
- ?c1450 in Aungier Syon Mon.262 : Suche a persone moste algates be commytted to pryson, leste one skabbed schepe infecte al the flokke.
- c1460 Awake lordes (Dub 432)12 : Oon scabbed shepe may enfecte al a folde.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)251b/b : Thus is þe name of a tree..þer of comeþ Ius..and is..y-cleped masculus, ffor it is rounde y-schapen as þe gendryng stones, And þe oþer is pleyne and ful scabbed [L scabiosum].
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.265 : The clawes drie & scabbid [L scabra], old, vnsely, Kitte al away.