Middle English Dictionary Entry
bedellium n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bedellium n. Also bdellium, bedullium, v(e)dellium, verdellium, delium, dellum. |
| Etymology | L bdellium, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A tree of the genus Commiphora; (b) the gum resin of such trees.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)216b/a : Bedellium..is a blak tre most liche to þe olyue in leues and in might. Gomme þerof is most y founde in vse of medicyne..it groweþ, as Plinius seiþ, in contreys of þe est.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.2.12 : Ther is foundun bdelyum [WB(2): delium, that is a tree of spicerie].
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)216b/b : Bedellium is hoote and moiste.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Num.11.7 : Manna forsothe was..of the colour of bdelli [WB(2): bdellyum, which is whyt and briȝt as cristal].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)186b/a : Bdellium is a gumme..and it is of spedy softenynge of skirres.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)66/13 : Off goummes þat are hate: Mirre, storax, olibane..bedellium.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)190 : Þes schulled be poudred: mastyk..vdellium [vrr. vedellium, verdellium], frankencence.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)49/12 : To makyn..gracia dei..do in þi dollum [read: dellum], and þi frankensence, and þi myrre.
- a1500 Platearius CInstans (Cmb Ee.1.13)3/9 : If hit is oftensithis ethen, hit fleþ þe guttes & þerfor hit mot be medillit wyth mastyke oþer wyth dragagant oþer wyth bedullium.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)50/8 : Godisgrace..cast in frank-ensens, murre, and bedilium.