Middle English Dictionary Entry
tansei(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tansei(e n. Also tanesei, tanesi, tannesei(e, tansai(e, tanesaie, tansȝei, tansi(e, -sẹ̄, -zi, -zẹ̄ & (?error) tensi. |
| Etymology | OF tanaisie, tanesie, tanezie, tansie, tenasie. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. tanacet n.
1.
(a) A plant of the genus Tanacetum, usu. common tansy (T. vulgare or Chrysanthemum vulgare), or a similar plant; (b) part of the tansy plant used medicinally or in cooking; crop (jus, leves, sed) of ~; (c) wild (whit) ~, ?the plant silverweed (Potentilla anserina) or a part of this plant, used medicinally; (d) glossing ML garbastus [? = carbatum hellebore or garbatum crab apple], tenerum, and transerigam [?corruption of an Ar. word]; (e) the cudweed [?erroneously].
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)556/17 : Tanesetum, i. tanesie, i. helde. ]
- [ a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)16/25 : Atanasia uel athasia tanacetum idem..tansie; anglice, bemp. ]
- [ ?a1425(a1400) Alphita (Sln 284)181 : Tanacetum domesticum uel ortolanum magis uiride est: gallice, tanesie; anglice, banifan. ]
- a1300 Sln.146 Gloss.(Sln 146)291/37 : Tanazetum..anglice, tanesy.
- c1300 Add.15236 Gloss.(3) (Add 15236)127/170 : Herba Sancte Marie: tanesei.
- a1325 Erf.Gloss.(Erf Amplon Q.351)159 : Tanecetum, i. tanesey.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)8b : Bornete is levys beþ like al most to tansey but þey beþ not so grete.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)67a : Ragwort..berithe yelowe flouris like tansy.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)486 : Tanze [Win: Tansȝey; KC: tansy], herbe: Tanasetum domesticum, quia tanazetum silvestre dicitur gosys gresse vel cameroche.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)166/11 : Iasia alba is..more quyt þan tanse.
- c1450 Y wandryng (Lin-O Lat.129)50 : Tomesyn..With tansy and totsayne hath takyn here reste.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)712/33 : Tansetum: tansaye.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)75 : Herbys necessary for a gardyn..Tyme, Tansey.
b
- a1325 Add.15236 Recipes(2) (Add 15236)252.122 : Pulvis pro plagis sanandis: Recipe bremmylcrop, reed-coulcrop, hempcrop, reed-netilcrop, fenylcrop, tansy, ana.
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)138.180/1 : Erbolat: Take persel, myntes..sauge, tansey..& grinde hem smale; Medle hem vp with ayren, Do buttur in a trap & do þe fars þerto & bake it.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)79b : Drynke..þe juis of tansy and of fedyrfewe..for the axes.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)186a/a : Take centorie..þe tendrons of cole wurtes, Tanneseie, mader..seþe hem wt wine and honye.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)636/18 : Take of centorie..of tanesaye [*Ch.(1): tanaseti], of mader..seþe ham wiþ wyne and wiþ hony, and ȝif hym a gobelotful.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)27/4 : If it [festering sore] brek, gif hir at drynk þe croppe of tansay & brere croppe..tempered with ald ale.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)191 : Tansey purgeþ nat only þe brest but alle parties with-ynne a mannes body.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)86 : Take faire Tansey and grinde it in a morter..and streyne also þe Iuse of þe Tansey, [etc.].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)145 : Take tanseye, rewe, & souþerne wode and ete him wyþ salt and þat schal do awey þe trembelynge.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)126/14 : Take a porciounn of rotys of smalache, lewys of tansye, sawge.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)127/3 : Þe lef of burnete, þe seed of tansye.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.50 : Grynde tansy, þo iuse owte wrynge To blynde with þo egges.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)156/16 : Vse þe tast of sqwete herbys qwyllis þu art in þe bath..as, in wyntir, worme-wode..and tansey and sothyrnwode.
- a1500 Diseases Women(3) (Yale-M 47)37/193 : Medicynes þer be weche..make þem to hafe purgacioun or delyuer hyre of a ded childe..As bawme y dronken and þe iuse..of leek or of tannesey.
c
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)170a/b : Centorie, wilde tanseie, þe iuyse and þe substaunce of asschen leues.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)204 : Gosys gres, or camoroche, or wylde tanzy [Win: tanze]: Camaroca, vel tanasetum agreste.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)77/28 : Tak waybrede, white tansay, ȝarow..& stamp ilk a grise by hym-selfe & wrynge owt þe jus.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)166/10 : Iasia alba is an herbe þat men clepe gosgres or wyld tanse.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)235/17 : For þe festre-gowte..Take wyte tansey, wey-bred, noseblede..and stampe euery be hym selfe.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)76 : Herbez to Stylle..Betayn, Wylde Tansey, Sauge.
d
- ?a1300 Wor.F.157.Gloss.(Wor F.157)184 : Garbastus: tensi.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)77/11 : After þe etynge take þe gretnesse of oon [dram] of electuarye Anisoun þat ys maad of þe tree of Aloes and Tansey [Caritate: safirroun; Abbrev.: galingale and grasegrinte; L transerigan].
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)79/314b : Sandix: maddyr; tenerum: tansey; maratrum: fenellsede.
e
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)67/18 : Tansay, id est, philoga.
2.
Cook. Some kind of pudding or omelet flavored with tansy; ~ cake.
Associated quotations
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)101 : Soupe with vs..And ȝe shal han mad..A gret puddyng..a tansey or a froyse.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)86 (1st occurrence) : Tansey: Take faire Tansey and grinde it..take eyren..streyne also þe Iuse of þe Tansey..and medle the egges and the Iuse togidre; And take faire grece..til hit mylte, and caste þe stuffe thereon..And turne hit in þe panne..And so serue it forth hote.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.50 (1st occurrence) : For a tansy cake Breke egges..Do powder of peper þer to..Þen grynde tansy; þo iuse owte wrynge To blynde with þo egges.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)503 : Tansey is good hoot, els cast it not in youre clowche.