agrest and agresta - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

agrest, -a adj. & n.

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Entry Info

Forms	agrest, -a adj. & n.
Etymology	L & OF

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.

(a) Uncultivated, wild (plant); (b) win ~, agresta, verjuice.

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Associated quotations

a

(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.324 : The bay of myrte agrest [L myrti agrestis].

b

a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)74/12 : Þe sixte partie of wiyn agrestis [Add: wyn agreste; L agreste], þat is smal brusk wiyn.
a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)75/12 : Fleisch..I-sauered with agresta eiþer wiþ wiyn of pome garnatis.
c1450 *Chauliac(1) (Sln 3666)152b/b : Agresta..repercussiue, vergeous.

Supplemental Materials (draft)

a1484 Burg.Pest.(1) (Trin-C R.14.52)584/135 : In his metis lete hym vse vynegre grete plente and agrista, that is, an egre verious.

Note: Ed.: "agrista 'verjuice, juice of sour or unripe fruit'."

Note: Additional quot., sense (b); new form.