Middle English Dictionary Entry
sorel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sorel n. Also sorel(l)e, surel(e & (?error) serel. |
| Etymology | OF surele, surelle, AF sorele. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A sour plant, either sour dock or sorrel (Rumex acetosa) or wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), used in medical and culinary recipes; also, the leaves of one of these plants; ~ de bois, wood sorrel; ~ jus; ~ rotes; ~ sauce; lesse ~, ?small sorrel (Oxalis minor); ?sour dock; (b) ?nightshade [? = morel n.(1)].
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)81 : Herba acetosa, ascedula, idem: gallice, sorele; anglice, sourdok. ]
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)51 : For hym that is in the jaunes..drynk sorell, plantayne, and chekyn-mete tempered with alde ale.
- ?a1400 Adv.18.5.16 Gloss.(Adv 18.5.16)159 : Acidula, i. surele.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)50 : Auxci auez la sorele..Also ȝe hauyþ þyȝe sorele.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)86a : Wodesour ys an erbe þat is hote and drye; som men calliþ hit stokwort oþer sorell de boys oþer cokkowe hede.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)172b/a : A wounde..nedeþ som stiptiknez, as be..acetose, i. sorel [Ch.(2): wode soure; L acetosa], & leuez of wilde perez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)67a/a : Floures of rosen and sorel de boys..ben stiptik.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)159a/a : Summe ben sympellye repercussiues, as nyȝtschode..yuy, Sorelle, water lilye, [etc.].
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)98/27 : The secounde entente is fulfilled..wiþ clensynge of blood..wiþ..sorelle [*Ch.(1): lupinellus; L lupulis].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)465 : Sorel, herbe: Surella, accidula, acetosa.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)146 : Sorell or souredok is clepid in latin assidula..for her sauour is tart as is vynegre.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)147 : Þe iuus of sorel medled with oyle of roses wole do goode to olde hede-ache..Sorel iuus anoyted makeþ a body glad cherid..Iubarbe is a maner of þis sorell, but for-þi þat she is ay grene and fressh, she is clepid iubarbe and senegrene; Þis is þe lesse sorell.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)213/5 : Take syngrene, planten, surell, [etc.].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)206/657 : Take horehowne..wormode, and sorell de voys [read: boys].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)204 : Tak agolon of wyn..& aquarteron of grene serel & an vnce of wermot.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)133/12 : Take an erbe soreldeboys, on englys men callyn it wodesowre.
- (1452-4) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)339 : Item, paye for hurtilbery rootes, parsely sede..and for sorel rootes, Summa xvj d.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.54 : With gynger þo pigge eton shalle be, And sorel with þo moton.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)75 : Cast in myntes and parcely and put in the fische and serue it furthe with sorell sauce.
- a1500 Hisp.SSecr.(Rwl C.83)7/28 : In þis season þu hast nede..to vse vinagre and sorel savce.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)75 : Herbes for Sauce..Sorell.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)465 : Sorel, herbe..solatrum.