Middle English Dictionary Entry
serāpīnum n.
Entry Info
| Forms | serāpīnum n. Also serapine, -phin, sarapine. |
| Etymology | ML serāpīnum & OF serapin. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A medicinal gum prob. derived from the plant Ferula persica; (b) error for semen raphani, radish seed.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)43/15 : Azafetida is best medicyn if þou make of him enplastre, serapinum, & þe fecis of a litil wex.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)334/25 : Of medicyns resolutiuis, summe ben simple..De gummis Mastix, olibanum, opoponac, asa fetida, mirra, serapinum [L Serapinum].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)94b/a : Hotter medicynes moste ben leide to drier bodies þe whiche moste ben sotile & persinge as..brimstone, castoreum, opoponak, serapinum.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)628/33 : Serapyne [*Ch.(1): Serapinum; L serapinum] is a gumme, hote and drye in þe secounde degree, and it softeneþ.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)66/13 : Mastike, opeponak, ammoniak, bedellium, seraphin..of all thies..gummes tak of ilkane ane vnce.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)228 : Do þeryn alycour of oyle of olyue & ij vnces..of sarapyne.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)123a/b : Þanne anoynte þe place wiþ fox grese or ellis wiþ assa fetida galbanum & serapinum.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)34a/12 : Caracta not confermede is holde with..a colery of gallis..and theis gallis shall be dryede with euforbyum, colliqintida, serapyne.
b
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)633/7 : Þere is putte a gummer to make white and to wasshe þe face..Take of þe mele of chiches, of benes, of barly, of blaunched almandes, of dragagant ana one partie, of serapyne [*Ch.(1): semen raphani, i. radice; L seminis raphani] half a partie.