Middle English Dictionary Entry
cantaride n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cantaride n. Also cantharide, cataride, kantaride. |
| Etymology | L cantharis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of beetle; esp., Cantharis vesicatoria; one of these beetles dried for medicinal use; (b) pl. a medicine made from these beetles, cantharides.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)226a/a : Grene flyes bredeþ þerjnne þat beþ cleped catarides [so Tol; L cantharides] and freteþ al þe þrift of þe corn.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)62/1 : Ȝeue to him medicyn maad of cantarides [L de cantaridibus]. Take old grete cantarides [Add: kantarydes], & do awei þe heed & þe wyngis.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)352/19 : Take þe wombis of cantarides & grinde hem wiþ leueyne.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)177b/a : Cantarides ar bestez, flies of grene colour, litel..with adustioun & vesiccacioun.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)149b/a : Take..one partie of þe flyes þat hiȝte canterides.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.865 : Let sle the flye, The cantaride [BodAdd: cantharide] in rosis that we se.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.890 : Vppon thy whetstoon sle the cantaride.
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)278/20 : Saxifrage & cantarides [L cantarides] & oþere strong medicyns..piliþ þe reynes.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)306/7 : Summen vsen cantarides for to make cauterijs þerwiþ.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/a : It is entensioun of doctours þat þe place be cured with cantarides & arsenec.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)162b/b : Þai makeþ noȝt escare, bot þai make vesic or bleddrez, as cantaridez.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)76/3 : Do þer-on kantarydes or garleke or scottleke.