Middle English Dictionary Entry
crudden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | crudden v. Also crodden, cruiden, curden. |
| Etymology | From crud n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To coagulate, congeal, solidify: (a) of milk: to curdle or make curdle; (b) of body fluids: to coagulate; (c) of other substances: to thicken or congeal; ~ togeder.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)301a/a : Whanne a cowe mylk is furst y ronne and y cruddid, it is y made as it were stoon.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)319b/a : Goot mylk y dronke by himself renneþ and cruddeþ soone in þe stomak.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.141 : Alfresh the mylk is crodded now to chese.
b
- (a1400) *Barton's Urines (Sln 280)f.283v : Whan þe sede is in his chaumbur, þan six dayes aftur þat .. wrastullyng þai restiþ hem & cruddiþ togedur as hit were mylk.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)27b/a : Be it..embroked with hote salt water þat þe blode go out & be noȝt coagulate or crudded.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)156a/b : And þe humour þat may not be coaguled i. crudded signified vnnaturelnesse.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)173a/a : [Medicine regendring flesh] coagulateþ i. cruddeþ it wiþ exsiccacioun i. drying.
- a1500(?a1400) MS Sln.282 in Alphita (Sln 282)p.90fn. : Lapis lincis comeþ of þe uryne of a wolf ypissed, and on þe hylles and munteynes crudded.
- a1500 *3 Inspect.Hematoscopy (Sln 3486)f.147v : Blode þat is þynne & watrie .. wille not engele nor crodde [Htrn 307: crudde].
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)196a/b : Quik siluer..cruddeþ nouȝt by it silf kyndeliche..but wiþ brymston..it is congeled.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)16b/a : Concr[et]us: crudded, medled.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)462 : Take clene ȝolkes of eyren beten and cast into the brothe, and let hit boyle and stere hit wel tyl hit crudde togeder.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)17 : Whan þe Mylke his skaldyng hote, caste þe stuf þer-to, an þenne stere yt tyll it crodde.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)218 : Ȝyf þey be gynne to crodde..ȝyf hyt croddyþ not.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)27 : Stirr it till it crudd, and when it crudithe [etc.].
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)31a : To cruyde: Coigulare.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)424 : When brasil water is cruddid..set it doune in a dyshe.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)47b : So doth our renite by kinde curdd apon our milke.
2.
Misc. uses: (a) to mold or shape (sth.); ~ fast, ~ togeder; (b) to congeal or harden (the heart); (c) to arrest (the spirit of life).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Job 10.10 : Whether not as mylc thou hast mylkid me, and as chese thou hast crudded me [L me coagulasti]?
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.67.16 : Wherto ouer trowe ȝee, the hillis cruddid togidere [L montes coagulatos]?
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Wisd.7.2 : In time of ten monethis cruddid I am [WB(2): Y was cruddid togidere] in to blod, of the sed of man.
- a1425 Primer Dirige (Wht)60/25 : Ne hast þou softid me as mylk and cruddidist me as chese?
- c1425(c1400) Primer (Cmb Dd.11.82)p.60 : Wheþer þou hast not softid me as mylk, and hast cruddid me togideres as chese?
- a1450 LDirige(1) (Dgb 102)83 : Riȝt as chese þou croddest me fast.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.118.70 : Cruddid [L coagulatum] is as mylc the herte of hem.
- c1425(c1400) Primer (Cmb Dd.11.82)p.82 : The herte of hem is cruddid as mylk; but y biþouȝte þi lawe.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)55b/a : Ȝif passinge hete haþ maistrie in þe herte, þe blood of þe herte meueþ; & so þe spirit of lif is I greued and crodded, & so deþ foleweþ.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)39a/b : Kynde haþ addid to it [the liver] cruddide blood to complesement of sufficient quantite.
Note: New spelling
Note: Belongs to sense 1.(b).
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section may not be complete (i.e. may not accord with standards of those in later volumes of the MED). Revised form section (including form in supplement quot.): Also crud, crodde, cruide, curd; p.ppl. crudded etc. & cruddede, icrudded.--notes per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475 Yale-BA.Artist.Recipes (Yale-BA R486.M43 1450) 99/3 : Take a quantite of lyme..and put hit into a vessell, and put water thereto and a lytel alome, and swete mylke, and let hit stonde so and curde [Brog 2.1:Clarke: crude].
- a1500 Rwl.C.506 Artist.Recipes (Rwl C.506) 169/18 : Take vnqweyntte lyme as it comeþ fro þe pitte, and put it yn a vessell and water þertoo, and alym..and lett it stonde and curdde.
Note: Additional quots., sense 1.(c). New spellings (curdde & crude).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.6vb (1.2) : 'Sanguis coagulatus'..a colleccioun of blode clumprede and cruddede togedre.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.25ra (2.2) : In mortificacioun the vryn is þik, be resoun þat frigidite clompreþ it & cruddeþ it togeder.
Note: Antedates sense 1.(b).