Middle English Dictionary Entry
adustiǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | adustiǒun n. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Treatment with heat or burning, calcination of a substance; (b) surg. cauterization; (c) phys. the corruption of bodily humors, ulcers, etc., by heat; the process by which humors, etc., become adust.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)47a/a : A medecen of Cantaridez corrected bi adustioun [*Ch.(2): brennynge; L adustionem] or mixte with gumme of cheriez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)178b/a : Minium is þe rede of peyntours made of seruse bi adustioun.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)0b/a : Cyrurgie is a party of Terapeutici i. of curing, heling men by inscisiouns & adustions [L vstionem; *Ch.(2): brennynges] & articulacions of bones.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)63b/a : Þer beþ put 8 maner localez to restreyne þe flux of blode..Of which þe first is bi suture..5a bi adustioun [*Ch.(2): adustioun i. brennynge].
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)24b/b : Of blode vnloueable bi his substance & bi adustioun [*Ch.(2): brennyng]..ar gendred alle pustlez crustous.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)83b/b : Causez of þise vlcerez beþ shrewed humours colric, acute i. sharp, mordicatyue, which for her adustion geteþ a maner fraudulence.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)86a/a : Þat materie forsoþ is fleumatic & melancolic..in which adustioun bryngeþ to sharpnez & venenosite.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)90b/a : If þai [vlcerez] be ingrossed forsoþ wiþ out adustioun bi infrigidacioun, þan þai make soft flesh.
2.
A capacity for modifying bodily humors through heat, property of being adustif.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)177a/a : Alleum is a rote..with adustioun [*Ch.(2): brennynge] & attraccioun.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)177b/a : Cantarides ar bestez flies of grene colour..with adustioun & vesiccacioun.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)101b/b : Redenesse be cause of hete of þe mater, & hete & brennynge be cause of adhustioun.
Note: Supplemental material.
Note: Sense (c).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.23ra (2.1) : 'Adustioun' is on Englisshe 'brennyng,' os when þe humores, or elles some of þe humores, is trauaylede and distemperede throgh exces of vnkynde hete..'Adustioun complete' is when exces of vnkynde hete is so mykel þat þer is none helpe or vneþes eny.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.23rb (2.1) : Mortificacioun, i. fordoyng of kynd hete. Adustioun, i. brennyng. Adustioun complete, when it is alle fullike brennede.
Note: Antedates word. ?New cpd.: ~ complete Editor's gloss: 'total corruption of bodily humours, food, etc. by heat'.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.26rb (2.2) : Blak vryn..bytokeneþ..adustioun of þe blode and of þe humores in þe body, i. þat the blode and þe humores ar forskalkerede in the body and forbrenned.
Note: Additional quot., sense 1.(c).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. adustion.