Middle English Dictionary Entry
brisūre, -ǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | brisūre, -ǒur n. Also bresure, brissure, brosure, bruser, brusure. |
| Etymology | OF brisëure |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wound, bruise; also fig.; (b) a breach (in a wall), break (in a pot).
Associated quotations
a
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2461 : Non schold in þat barnes bodi o brusure finde.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Jer.30.12 : Vnheleable thi brosure [L fractura; WB(2): brekyng], werst thi wounde.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)51/18 : If þat..þe brosure [L contusio] were in the ouer parti of þe bodi, voide þe fecis..bi clisterie.
- ?a1400 *Albi Reynolds 5081 Recipes (Albi Reynolds 5081)f.20v : Tak boris grece and leuis of laureole & brusse hem and frye hem to gedre and streyne it thorgh a lynen cloth and þis oyle is good for alle maner soris of brussure.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)12295 : The beste of vs..May haue harm..In woundes sore & gret brosures.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)13/6 : It availeþ in al apostemez..and also in many brissurez.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)230 : So is that..flour of all mankinde..scourged with wounde vppon wounde and brisour vppon brisour.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)47/15 : Tak þe rute of hertis tonge..for bolnyng..bi fallyng or strakes or any maner of oþer brissour.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)1584 : Oure frele nature..wyth synne was almost schent, But recuryd had ben oure brosure.
- a1450 *Treat.Garsing (Htrn 307)f.166v : Þou schalt make garsyng in ij placis or þre..bitwixe þe schuldir & þe elbowe for þe blod of brisure in þe schuldris & þere also for aking of þe iȝen & of þe heed.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)158/477 : For eyȝen that bene blew or blak off brusurs, take white of yren.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)75/6 : For bresowre with-innen a mannys body.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)386 : For ache of bonys & also for brosour, It remedieth.
- a1605(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(2))23210 : I anoynted my bresures.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))2 Esd.6.1 : I hadde bild the wal and ther was not in it laft brosure [L interruptio; WB(2): brekyng] among.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)62.16 (v.1:p.376) : A vessel .. reckelesly fel doun from a table and brake on two pecys .., and whan he rose from his preyer he fonde the vessel as hool as it was biforne, withoute ony wemme of hurte or of brosure.
2.
The action of wounding or bruising; ~ of pes, a breach of the peace.
Associated quotations
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Lev.24.20 : Brusur [L fracturam; WB(2): brekyng] for brusur, eye for eye, tooth for tooth he shal ȝeelde.
- (1436) Case King Council in Seld.Soc.35102 : The kyng..in eschuyng of trouble and bruser of his pees.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)1/16 : Olde euangelik men..myȝte..be mad hool parfiȝtly, except þe strok of þe þundir blast, & violent brusuris, and oppressynge of to myche betynge.
- a1500 PParv.(KC 8)52 : Brisyng or brissoure [vr. bryssure]: Quasatio, contusio, collisio.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.36va (2.3) : If on spit blode and it come noȝt of bresour..it is of þe lunges. And oþerwhile þogh it come þorogh bresure, it may come of þe lunges.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.97vb (3.10) : When a membre or a lym in þe body be hurt or blemysshede, if it come..of þe kil, [it is] þrogh brestyng or bresur of him or of some of his veyns.
Note: 'Bresure' [in 1st quot.] and 'bresur' = sense 2. Quots. antedate sense 2.. New spellings: bresour, bresur.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. brusure.