Middle English Dictionary Entry
scrōphulārīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scrōphulārīe n. Also scropholarie, scrofularie, scrophularia. |
| Etymology | ML scrōphulāria, AL scrōfulāria. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A plant or an herb of the genus Scrophularia.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)269/15 : Take scropholarie [glossed: medewort] þe rynde þerof & grinde it wiþ grese & make þerof an enplastre.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)87b/b : Of þise beþ al þe herbez capillarez, & namely ceterac & herbe robertus & scrophularia [Ch.(2): scrophularie; L scrophularia], And it is for þis named cancrosa, which beþ best to make pocionz.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)179a/a : Scrophularia is þe rote of an herbe, ca. & sic., with resolucioun.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)180b/b : A puluer of Maister Dyny, þat R[ecipe], scrofularie.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)185b/a : Take ij ounce of scrofularie, ane ounce of gynger, [etc.].
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)150/8 : I putte þerto of þe roote of scrophularie, i. lunge wort.