Middle English Dictionary Entry
clistēri(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clistēri(e n. Also clistri(e, clistori(e, glisteri(e, glistiarie. |
| Etymology | L clystērium (ML vr. glistērium); ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. clister.
1.
Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe; ~ purs, the bag or bladder of a clyster; (c) the use of clysters, clysterizing.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.393 : He usede ofte clistories [vr. clysteryes; L clisterio] and spuynge.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)101b/b : Hit is a general medicyne..to put out þe venymes matier aboue by spewinge oþir byneþe wiþ a clisterye.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)56/1 : Make him a clisterie [Add: clistry] ouþer a suppositorie oonys ech day.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)162a/b : Clisteriez forsoþ, or enema, was take of a brid ynea þat for akyng of his wombe toke water of þe see with his bille and kest it in to yt bihyndefurþ.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)37/36 : In þis cas [dysentery] availeþ þe myche clisteries lenitiues.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)76/10 : Þis bene necessary to þe confeccion of clistriez, þat is to sey, Hony, oile, butter, salt, swynez grese, sope white and blak, oile of camamill, oile of rwe.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)51a/a : Clisteries and suppositories of oyle, of ruwe, of comyn, & of saundeuer ben profitable and conforteþ þe lyuer.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)199 : Glystery..: Glisterium.
- c1450 *Chauliac(1) (Sln 3666)139a/a : Comendacion of glisteriez.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.393 : A clisterie is an instrument þat phicicians useþ forto putte in a manis neþer ende forto clense his wombe.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)150a/a : And som is without vice or to þe maner of clisteriez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)165b/b : I bare with me a purse of clisteriez [*Ch.(2): þe purses of clisteries; L bursam clisteriorum] & oþer comon þingez.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)11/30 : Ȝif his wombe be costyue..be it softned..with water of decoccioun of maluez and branne..and be it ȝette in by a clisterye.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)78/24 : If ane hole man..be distitute of appetite..þat he may no maner ete..by þe infusion into þe lure by a clistrye of any norischyng liquore..þe lyuer mygth draw þerof to hymself and so norisch þe body.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)81a/b : It is bettre..to þrowe it in to þe guttes by clisteryes [*Ch.(1): a clisterie; L clistere].
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)244/15 : Yf þe flux comme of defawte of þe nethyr guttis, make hym receyue it þrow a clystory be-neþe.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)280 : Do get you a glistiarie purce, with the whiche, and the broth of good fatte boef.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)13/1 : If he may not schite oones a day, helpe him þerto, or with clisterie [L clisteri].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)51/19 : Voide þe fecis of his wombe bi clisterie [L clistere].
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)76/18 : Þise bene herbez necessary to þe werk of clistry.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. clystery.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. glystery.