Middle English Dictionary Entry
thūs n.
Entry Info
| Forms | thūs n. Also tus, (error) vs. |
| Etymology | L tūs, thūs. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. thure n.
1.
(a) Any of various trees of the genus Boswellia, but particularly B. carteri, the frankincense tree; (b) an aromatic gum resin, frankincense, olibanum;—often used medicinally or as incense; poudre of ~; (c) the word 'thus'; (d) error for jus n.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)802/23 : Sabea..in Arabia..bereþ frannkencense and ȝeueþ goode smelles, for in wodes and laundes þerof groweth myrre, canel, thus.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1063/18 : Thus is a tree of Arabia and is gret wiþ many bowes..And þerof comeþ ius with good smelle..whyte as almaundes.
b
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)370/18 : Þe teþ schal be idrawe out..Þe gomes and þe rootes schal be frotid and iclensid wiþ poudir of thus [L thuris] and mastik and wiþ hony.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)551/11 : Holy chirche holdiþ þe feste of dedicacioun..whanne þe bisschop gooþ aboute þe chirche..and brennyþ thus in [read: an] thimiama in fyue partyes of þe auter.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1063/29 : Þe tree þat sweteþ and woseþ thus hatte libanus.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1064/10 : Thus þat comeþ out in heruest..is nouȝt liche to þe oþer in vertue neyþer in colour for þat is white..and þe secundarye thus is þynne and scabbed.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1065/12 : Thus is þe gomme of a certayn tree in Alexandria þat þe best and most pure hatte olibanum alexandrinum.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)1b/b : Acerra: a fessel þat men puttiþ in thus.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)629/33 : Thus, frank encence, is a gumme hote in þe secounde degree and drie in þe firste.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)135/37 : In caas ȝe were constreynyd..forto go into þe temple in which is sett an ydol..and forto take an encenser and caste vs [read: tvs] bi encensyng bifore þe ydol, [etc.].
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)123a/b : R[ecipe]: thus, mirre & hony; medle hem togidere & leye it þerto.
c
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1065/32, 1066/3 : Þis noun 'thus' comeþ of 'theos', þat is 'god', for it is offred in sacrifice of goddes and in þis manere write..eyther it comeþ of 'tundo, -is', 'betynge' or 'pownynge', for it is able to be powned..and þe more it is ypowned..þe bettre it smelleþ and brenneþ ..and is þanne write wiþoute 'h': 'tus'.
d
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)218 : Loke þat þou make þese pylotes by fore myssomer & loke þat þou ley not to þe woundes but wort leues wythoute þus, for þer ys noon so good medycyne for woundes.