Middle English Dictionary Entry
cochie adj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cochie adj. & n. |
| Etymology | ML & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A remedy for relieving 'excess humors'; pillule ~.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)140/1 : I comaundide him to take pilulas chochias.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)243/20 : If colre be medlid wiþ ony partie of gret mater..þan þer is no medicyn so good as cochie Rasie [L cochias Rasis].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)33a/b : Fleumagoge i. a medecyne þat purgeþ flewme, as pillule cochie [F pillules coccies].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. cochie (pl.).