Middle English Dictionary Entry
shabbed(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | shabbed(e adj. Also shabed & (early SWM) scabbede. |
| Etymology | OE sceabbed(e, scæbbede. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. scabbed(e adj.
1.
Suffering from scabies, impetigo, mange, or similar diseases; covered with sores or ulcerations; also fig.
Associated quotations
- a1275 Louerd asse þu ard (Trin-C B.14.39)240 : He was..Abroken & def & blint..Scabbede.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)8.17 : Bisshopis..prechen here personis þe periles of synne, How þat shabbide [vrr. shabbede; scabbide, scallide] shep shulde here wolle saue.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)10.264 : Thyne sheep are ner al shabbyd; þe wolf shiteþ woolle.
- a1450 SLeg.Barlaam (Bod 779)225 : An old mon he fond..Schabbid he was..loþliche on to se.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)103/259,260 : Of þe same cause þat þe mangew wol gendre so wol þis, of bi-stonding bi a schabbed hors..or if he be whiped with a wippis, curreyed with a combe þat a schabbed hors haþ be curreyd with.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)77/24 : For schabbed handes Tak virgine-wex and olye dolye, [etc.].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)78/6 : Tak red netlys and sethe hem, and let hem stuen þer here handys and here schabed fet.