Middle English Dictionary Entry
tisane n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tisane n. Also tisan(ne, tisain(e, tizanne, tipsan, thisane, thesan, ptisane, ptisan(ne, pthisane, petisane. |
| Etymology | OF tisane, tisaine, tisanne, tizanne, ptisane & L tisana, ptisana, AL tipsana; ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Shelled or cooked barley; (b) a medicinal drink made from shelled barley and water; ~ water; gruel ~.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)66a/a : Tipsana, ordeum decorticatis vel cortis [Cnt: decorticatum vel coctum]: thysane.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)128b : Tysan: ptisana.
b
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1009/22 : Of bareliche yscheled and ysoden in water is medicynable drynk ymade þat phisicians clepiþ thisane.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)139/13 : In þe v day he took þikke tezanne.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)162a/a : After operacioun of þe medicyne..ffor to drynke a drauȝt of pthisane for to wash þe stomac.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)91b/b : Þe pacient moste forbere..allemounde milke, tisane water, & flesch broþ.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)51/33 : Þe best drynke ware calde water mengede with vynagre or tysayn, for tysayn profettes mekill to men þat are colorik.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)84 : Medle þe iuus of leek [with] ptisane [vr. petisane].
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)167 : Take þis herbe in þe iuus of tysane [vrr. ptisan, tipsan].
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)108/2 : Let him ete diapenidion with ptisane. (Ptisane is watir þat barliche is soden yn.)
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)84a/b : Lete him drinke..a tysanne of þe seþinge of barly.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)116b/b : Þe mete þat he muste eten..muste be watir growel or ellis a thesan.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)153a/a : Al maner potage as pesen, almaunde mylk, gruel ptisanne..& oþere siche.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)281 : Do gete you ayenst hete..a busshell of clene barly for tysayne.
2.
?Headache [perh. from confusion with tisik(e n.].
Associated quotations
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)30b : Horschele..a-batith þe tysayne that is þe evill of þe hede.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.7rb (1.3) : Þe iowse of þe fode is sewede and soken & dryllede riȝt as it were a maner of drynke þat we callen 'pthisan.'
Note: Additional quot., sense (a).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ptisan.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tisan.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tisan water.