Middle English Dictionary Entry
trēt(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | trēt(e n.(1) Also treite; pl. tretes, tretus. |
| Etymology | OF trait, tret, treit & treite, AF trete. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. atret adv., entret n.
1.
(a) Med. A medicinal plaster; also, an ointment, a salve; pl. ?the mixed ingredients of a salve; (b) ?a peal or stroke of a bell; (c) in phrases: in ~, ?laid out in a line or a row; on ~, at great length, for a long time.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)132/9 : Take euene porcioun of whiȝt rosyn & of wex..& drawe abrood þat treet on a cloop, & leie it on þe wounde.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)132/350a : Take wormode, smalach, and as moch of swynes grese as erbis and bray heme togedir and do it in A cloth and lay it to þe felon or postyme and it shall draw out hem wt owtyn any trete.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)196 : Grene treet: Tak morel, stanmerche..& lete hem seþe euer tyl þey ben grene ynowȝ.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)108a/b : Flower vnguentorum: that is a trete & an oyntment the which is good to all olde woundis.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)130a : Trett: ..Emplastrum.
- a1500 Sln.962 Diseases Horse (Sln 962)99 : If any rowes waxen, pare hem awey wit a knyf, and after ley yer to treet.
- a1500 Sln.2584 Med.Miscell.(Sln 2584)127/22 : Þe wounded man schal drynke þer-of with ale..and couere þe wounde with þe leef of a calsfolȝ..for it nedeþ noon oþer saue ne treyte.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)50/13 : Tret:..a[n] vnce of astrologi..so y-do to þe tretys, and wiþ þys emplastere myȝt þou hele soune and wel a sore.
- ?a1500 Med.Bk.(2) (Hrl 1600)193 : Her es ane oþer maner apostolicon & is called tret of Ieue [vr. Entret of Iue].
b
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)164/9,10 : Yn þe deþ of a man þer at hys knyle, þre tretys schuld be rongen [vr. songon], and at a woymon tweyne tretus.
c
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)354 : The mane in his mantylle syttis at his mete, In paulle purede with pane..Trofelyte and trauerste wythe trewloues in trete.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)1062 : Hath by herte be wroth or gret When goddes serues was drawe on tret?
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)371/130 : He spekys on trete, his paustee is grete, bot begyn he to threte he lokys full grisly.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. treat.