Middle English Dictionary Entry
terciā̆n adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | terciā̆n adj. Also terciane, tertian. |
| Etymology | L tertiānus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In combs.: ~ fever, fever ~, an intermittent fever with attacks coming every other day, tertian fever; fever ~ cotidian, a tertian fever with continual paroxysms; fever ~ interpolate, a tertian fever with intermittent paroxysms.
Associated quotations
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4149 : I dar wel leye a grote That ye shul haue a feuere terciane Or an agu that may be youre bane.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)90b/a : A ffeuere Terciane comeþ of colera I-rotid wiþoute veynes & pipis & noȝt I-gadred to aposteme.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)90b/b : And so whan þe cause of a simple feuere tertian is I-knowe, þan ferst diete schal be I-ordeyned as age & tyme askeþ.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)59/39 : Þe jus of solsekill..helpes þe feuer tercyane.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)127/5 : Þis feuer tercian comeþ sum tyme of an vnordinat heete and sum tyme of coold.
- a1450 Diseases Women(2) (Sln 2463)96 : Also þis oyle is..for þe feuers tercian oþer quartain oþer cotidian þat comyn thorough fleume naturall.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)123 : Also to the ffevere terciane, wryte in iii obleyes..in the furste schalbe wryte increatus pater.
- c1450 Bod.483 Herbal (Bod 483)115/428 : Persely..helpyþ to dystry the fever tercyan.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)21/21 : Þe feuere tercian..is causid of putrifaccioun or reed coler to myche haboundynge.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)183/23 : If it is of coler..he haþ moche greuaunce boþe to swolewe and to drawe breeþ, and comenli he haþ a feuer tercian þerwith.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)25b/5 : Colr roted, outher it is with in veynys and then makithe he a feuer tercyan cotedian, and if it last in all the vaynys..or with out þe veynis, þan makyth it a feuer tercian interpolat.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.81 : For a codidiane feuer & a tercian feuer, bynde þis stone in a red sendell clowte & ber it vpone þe.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)38/3 : Medicine for þe feyuer tertian þat nymyt a man nyȝt or day.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. interpolate tertian fever.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tertian fever.