Middle English Dictionary Entry
vomis adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | vomis adj. Also vomita, vomica. Pl. vomicis, vomitis, vomites. |
| Etymology | From L vomicus, vomitus; ?also cp. OF vomice or vomis- (as in vomissable, vomissement, etc.). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Some examples taken under vomit n. sense (d) may belong here; some examples taken here may be regarded as Latin.
1.
Med. (a) emetic; medicine ~; medicine not ~, an anti-nausea medication; nux vomita [see nux n.]; (b) ?Containing pus, purulent.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)236b/b : Þer is also many diuersite of notes þat acordeþ to medicyne as nux musticata, nux indica, and nux uomyta and oþre suche. Nux muscata, the note migge, is þe fruyt of a tre þat groweþ in Inde.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.16r : Alithimus..: Þer is of 2 manere: on þat is grosse & þikke & a party hol, & anoþer þat is more thennish & suptile & noȝt hol. That is þikke & hol ouȝt be put in medycyns vomytys; þat is suptil & massyf in oþer medicyns.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.16r : The grete canele as is seyde ouȝt to be in medicyns vomycis, but neueremore alone, for it causith not only wlatyng but violence ek.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.60r : Ther is 2 manere of: croc oriental & croc ortensis ('of þe gardyn'); Croc oriental is don in medicyns noȝt vomytes.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.59v : Principal vertu of nux vomica is to causyn vomyt, braking.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)196b/b : Nux vomita men vseþ þat is wiþynne forþ and not þe rynde.
b
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)93a/b : If it [blood] comeþ of þe brusure of þe veyne þat is in þe brest, þanne it comeþ out wiþ cowȝinge and þe blood ys vomys.