Middle English Dictionary Entry
scrōphul(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scrōphul(e n. Also scrophula, scroful; pl. scrophules, etc. & scrophulus, scropheles, scrophiles, scrofulus, scrofelis, scurffils, skorphillis, scrofles. |
| Etymology | OE scrofell & L scrōfulae, ML scrōphulae, AL (pl.) scrōphile & ML scrōfula, scrufula. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A scrofulous growth or lump; ?also, sg. & pl. scrofula; (b) as adj.: scrofulous.
Associated quotations
a
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.188ra : The skin of þe water irchon is good for scabbe and the scrofles.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)19/11 : Þe iij intencioun is to remeue þat þat is to myche, as scrofulus [Add: scurffyls; L scrophulas] of þe heed & þe necke & oþere parties of þe bodie.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)207/9 : Greet fleume is medlid with malancoli, & þerof comeþ glandula & Scrophule.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)231/2-3 : If þou desirist to cure glandulas & scrophulas wiþ kuttyng, loke wher glandula or scrophula be neische..Þan take him vp wiþ þi lift hond.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42) : Stampe hym with olde sounge of swyn or ellys of bere. & ley on þe scrophlis & it fordoþ hem if þey ben not hold.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)30b/a : Of fleume vitreous & gipceous ar made al knottez hard & scrophelez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)32b/b : Scrophula [Ch.(2): Scrophula, a scrophul] to þe maner of scrophe porcium, i. swyn sowe, plurified, or made many, hard, noȝt vtterly seperate, is most founden in þe necke.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)33a/a : Childre for her gluttry..renneþ more ofte in to scrophulez [Ch.(2): scrophulus].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)34a/b : Be þai..mundified with..vnguent of apostelez..of grete helyng to yuel scrophulez & vlcerate.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)102b/a : Þer cumme also þerof glandules & scrofules þe whiche be fulle of squames, þe whiche mowe be cleped also fistulose.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)119a/a : Glandules & scrofules þe whiche holden partie of swete fleume oþer of blode, ȝif þei mature in partie, þei wille not be clensed.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)116/22 : The multitude of outward scrophules bytokeneþ pluralite of ham wiþynneforth.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)126/8 : It desolwyth skorphillys and karnellis.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)127/22 : Þe scrophilis, cornes, and postemys it dissoluyth with-owtyn fyuer.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)103a/b : The secunde doctrine of þis chapitre schal treten of vlcus sordidum, þat is, an old wounde hauynge grete crustis or schalis, as it were of salt fleume or oþere spicis of þe mormole or þe scroful.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)49 : A playstre..helyt postomus, cankres, festres, and þat heleuer, scrofelis.
b
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)103a/b : He..haþ foule fleisch, glandelous or knotti, or scrophul and squamous, þe which comeþ of salt fleume and of malancolie.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. scrofula.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. scrofule.