Middle English Dictionary Entry
clistē̆r n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clistē̆r n. Also glister, glistiare, glisere. |
| Etymology | L clyster (ML vr. glistere) & OF clistere; ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. clisteri(e.
1.
Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)81b/b : He schal haue a clistir [L clisterium].
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)54 : Whan þei [hounds] mowe not scombire..make hym a Clistre, as men doon to a man, of Malowes and beetes and of Mercurie an handfulle of eueryche.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)16a/b : Þe inuencioun i. fyndyng of clisterez [L clisteriorum].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)169b/a : If he be harde wombed with hardened drestres þat a clister mollificatif be done tofore.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)170a/b : A clensyng clistre..The constreynyng clister.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)199 : Glystere [vr. glisere]:..glistere.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)28/30 marg. : R. de O. Clister. Tak salte, hony..& put in his fundement.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)156/468 : For illica passio, make a glister of the powdre of philipendula and of salt watir and of oyle and of hony.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)43/11,15 : Mu[n]dificatif clister schal been made þus..For to makyn a clister consolidatif.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)26a : A Clister: glistere, glisterium, clistero.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)281 : Streyne hit thorough a streynour, bene esy glistiare and not herfull.
b
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)77/6 : Tak of þe forseid decoccion..and putte it in þe bladder, and putte þe gretter ende of þe pipe into þe bladder and bynde it faste; and anoynte þe forþer end of þe pipe..putte in þe pipe of þe clistre into þe lure; And now ow þe leche for to presse þe bladder with þe liquore atuix his hondez and ȝette in þe liquore.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)158a/a : It is brode in þe maner of an embote in þe whiche a purse of lether may be bounden, and some is with a knotte..in þe maner of clisteres.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. clyster.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. glyster.