Middle English Dictionary Entry
colik adj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | colik adj. & n. Also colik, colique, colike, collik & (Latinate) col(l)ica. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Affecting the colon; suffering with colic; (b) as noun: a disease characterized by severe abdominal pain, the colic.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)93a/b : Þe ache þat hatte yliacus & colicus, yliaca passio and colica passio..comeþ of winde & fumositees þat strecchiþ & to haleþ þe bowellis..Somtyme of scharpnesse of humours þat fretiþ & bitiþ þe substaunce of boweles & brediþ þerinne whelkes and bocchis. ]
- [ a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)51 : For wynd and ventosite that men callis collica passio..make the a girdil of seel skyn; and whil thu weres hit aboute thi body thu sal noght have collicam passionem. ]
- [ a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)15b/a : Colicus: mon þat suffereþ colica passio, þat ys an euuel in þe guttes. ]
- [ c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)66/162 : Collica passio..sit in a ffatt of hote water vp to the navyll. ]
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)76/33 : Colic men and oþer men constipate.
b
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.195va : If þer be do to polipodie & anet, it is þe beter & it is good for þe asme & flux of þe stomac & collica.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)114 : Spar not to blowe! To holde wynde..Wil engendre Collis [vrr. collikes, collyk, colica] passioun And make men to greuen on her roppys.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)147a/b : Akyng of þe reynes in þe bigynnyng is mych like to akyng of þe colic.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)78/7 : It is to witte þat in curacione of þe colic no medicyne so sone helpeþ as clistery, ffor why þis bryngeþ out hard squiballez of what euery cause þai be withholden.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)19a/a : Clisteries..in þe colique þay schal be layde in þe former partie and aboute þe lefte parte.
- a1456(a1426) Lydg.Mum.Hertford (Trin-C R.3.20)40 : She al day with hir iowsy nolle Hathe for þe collyk pouped in þe bolle.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)87 : Colyke, sekenesse: Collica passio.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)322/1060 : This same medeceyn shall avoyd the colyke and the stone.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. colic.