Middle English Dictionary Entry
adust ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | adust ppl. |
| Etymology | L, ppl. of adūrere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of medicines or ingredients: treated with intense heat, calcined.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)83a/b : R[ecipe]..carabel aduste, And þat is rede erþe as smal as grauel.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)93b/a : Alum combust & a drie cucurbita adust [L adusta; *Ch.(2): ybrente].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)173b/b : Al stiptik þingez wanting mordicacioun bi þem selfe or bi preperacioun, as centauree..& aristologi adust, & netez lether, olde solez aduste.
2.
(a) Of humors: morbidly altered in nature by the action of the heat of the body; (b) of a disease: caused by adust humors; of a person: having a temperament dominated by adust humors.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)203/24 : iij maner of colre adust..is whanne his blood is adust, id est brent.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)24b/b : Anoþer maner when it [blode] is aduste & þe subtile of it is conuerted i. turned in to colre grosse.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)35a/a : When forsoþ blode & fleume beþ adust [*Ch.(2): brente], þer is made also melancolie innaturale bi adustioun.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)110a/b : After G[alen], Ther be not put bot 2 spicez of 2 yuel colrez aduste; Neþerlez oure comon scole assigneþ 4 spices after þat 4 humours may be adust & turned in to melancolie.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)58/18 : When blode is aduste, it is scharped.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)23b/a : Of apostemes, some ben made of a mater nouȝt aduste i. brente, neyþer corrupte i. roten, and some of corrupte & aduste and of eyþer.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)9007 : Of thre humours þei causyd be: As coler reed, fleum salt, & coler adust (Wych of alle þe thre ys þe wurst).
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)22 : Þe feuere agu comounly is causid of a uyolent reed coler adust, and of blood adust, and of blak coler adust..alle þe humouris ben adust.
- a1605(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(2))18308 : A boche or a fellon ar cawsyd..of colore adust.
b
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)57/29 : [Moderate bleeding of hemorrhoids] preserueþ þe body fro many sekenez aduste and corrupte, as is Mania, malencolia, pleuresis.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Mutability MN (Hrl 2255)93 : The coleryk man..Drye and adust and a gret wastour.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)16b/19 : Of’ coler’ and vst [read: adust; L adusta] in apostume and the cur’ for it.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)27a/3 : Of’ coler’ and vste [read: aduste; L adusta] in apostume and the cur’ of’ it.
Note: New spelling
Note: Add forms and vst and and vste as errors in 'Also'.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.62ra (2.8) : Vryn pale or subpale þoroghoute thenne, & wiþ a maner of grenyshede, seiþ 'dominium' of a colre aduste (anglice: a brent colre; adust, i. brente).
Note: Additional quot., sense 2.(a).