Middle English Dictionary Entry
tisik(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tisik(e n. Also tissike, tesik(e, ptisik(e, pthisic, tphisike. |
| Etymology | OF tisique, AF tisik(e. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. potisis n.
1.
A wasting disease of the lungs, phthisic; also, a cough or other lung or throat ailment.
Associated quotations
- (1301) Coroner R.in Sharpe Cal.Coron.R.Lond.16 : [Roger..left the kitchen..complaining of a disorder called] Tisik.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)106/6 : In hem þat haue þe tesike..þe breþ vanschiþ away by priuey holes.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1019/10 : Þe pyneapul curnelles..helpeth hem þat haue þe tysyke and beþ consumpt.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1291/24 : Tphisike..beþ cause of wan coloure [of urine].
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.139/6 : When..it makeþ for to falle in-to pthisic, þan is necessarie a cauterie to be made.
- c1460(?c1435) Lydg.Let.Glo.(Hrl 2255)53 : A drye tisyk makith oold men ful feynt.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)99 : Doun-fallyng of þe humourz..is woned to engendre þe cogh and the ptysyk [vrr. tisik, tesyke].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)284/924 : For tesik or defaute of wynd and oþer syknes tak elenacampana.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)111/4 : Diapenidion is good for..þe coughe and for hoosnes..and for þe ptisike.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.287 : Herode..was vexede with a soore fever, grete ycchenge, with swellenge of his feete..and with a violente tisike [Trev.: kouȝhe; L tussi].
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)708/5 : Tisis: the tyssyke.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)618 : He will undertak All tho þat [haue]..þe tyseke.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1484 Comment.Hippocrates (Trin-C R.14.52)417/1110 : The comyng of crisis with his complement is nat only in thiese sikenessis but fallith in many sikenessis of cronykes, and propirly in arefaccioun and in fever quartan and in gadryng of helth turned into filthed in the brest and ptisi.
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- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.36va (2.3) : Who so haþe þe pthisik, and he moute on his heued, and þerwiþ com vpon hym a dyarie or a dissentarie, þer is noȝt but deth.
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Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. phthisic.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tisic.