Middle English Dictionary Entry
ventọ̄se adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | ventọ̄se adj. Also ventous(e, ventuse. |
| Etymology | L ventōsus & OF ventos, ventous. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ventuous adj.
1.
Pathol. (a) Characterized or caused by gaseousness, flatulent; also, as noun: a protrusion or hernia distended by gas;
(b) causing flatulence.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)212/12 : Ventosum apostema…is apostym þat is ful of wijnd. ]
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)2.163/3 : Idropisis is…Aposteme & inflacioun of þe wombe of materie grosse & ventose [Ch.(2): wyndy; L ventosa] gendered with-in þe spaciositee of þe wombe.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)2.171/11,173/13 : Proprely apostemez ar said and beþ 5, viz, hernia humorale, ventose, aquose, carnose, & varicose…Signz of ventose [Ch.(2): hernia ventosa] beþ inflacioun & liȝtnez with resistence & shynyng with clerenez.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)107/32 : A wyndy aposteme is gendred of a ventouse and vaporouse flewme.
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)25/13 : Hernia aquosa, s. watri & ventous, & hernia carnosa & ful of warri veynes for of intestinal…he wole seie in 6o terge.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)84b/b : The first cure…is…ffor to opene þe wounde wiþ a fleme þat þe malicious blood mowe passe out and aftir þat…þou mowe also drawe out þe ventuse fume as wel as þe blood.
b
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)137a/b : It [rupture] commeþ of lepynge and cryinge and of fallinge & of to moche hauynge to do wiþ wymmen and of strokes and of ventouse metes & oþere sucche.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1484 De Retard.Senect.(Trin-C R.14.52)173/710,711 : Signes of the hurt of imagynacioun and of the former part of the brayne bien thiese..[he] seeth singulier ventuses and wyndes and fuyres and watres and the remenaunt of ventuses [L ignes et aquas et reliqua ventosa], wyndes and blowynges, or fiebly imagyneth the formes and shapis of thynges in sleepe and wakynges.
Note: New sense, 'as noun: windy things'.
Note: Ed.: "ventuses n. pl. 'windy things'."