Middle English Dictionary Entry
sūcce n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sūcce n. Also suc, succus, succo. |
| Etymology | L sūcus, sūccus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The juice of a plant; (b) ~ of led, a medicinal ointment made of butter mixed in a lead mortar; (c) the fossil resin amber.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)88a/a : Is gode..for to colde & drie it wiþ water of solatri..& oþer mineralez y-wasshen & waterez & succo camphorate [L succis camphoratis], y-led in a morter of lede.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)89a/a-b : Among which is praised þat bi tuthie & lich þingez wasshen þat þer be medled þerto succe [?read: succes; Ch.(2): þe iuses; L succi], not only hauyng vnmordicacioun, bot also most myȝty for to mitigate þe akyng, as is succe [vr. succere; Ch.(2): þe iuse; L succus] of mandrage.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)89b/a : Be þer made scief wiþ succo of oliue lefez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)91a/a : Bigynne at þe medecene..of 3 kyndes of pome-granatez..kutte hem fresh..And..stampe ham bisyly þat þe succe may be expressed fro hem.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)167a/a : To..subtile pouder be put of oile..of watrez, succez, i. Iussez, or of aceto, i. vinegre, as mych as of þe minerales.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)178a/a : Ipoquistidos is a suc, i. Iuyse, decocte & inspissed fri. & sic.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)95a/b : Rabi Moises enditeþ butir coct & despumed, led or stirred at þe son in a morter of lede vnto it wax blak, And it is riȝt meruailous..in cesyng of akyng; And he calleþ þis succum plumbi, s. succe of lede.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)240b/b : A precious stoon that hatte electrum..hath another name and hatte Succus, ffor it is þe Ius of a tree [L dicimus sucinum eo quod arboris sit succus].