Middle English Dictionary Entry
crūde adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | crūde adj. |
| Etymology | L crūdus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Raw, crude; coarse (bread), untanned (hide); (b) of body fluids: undigested, unnatural, morbid.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.772 : In amalgamyng and calcenyng Of quyk siluer, ylcept Mercurie crude.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)133a/b : Brede crude & þerf & leguminez i. potagez of caules..ar forbedde to hem of þe comontee of leches.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)170b/b : Cocte is lesse suspecte þan crude i. rawe [vnguentum egipciacum], for it abideþ al grene.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2387 : The bak of this trotoys..With..hidis rawe or crude..Wel couered is.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)30a/b : Verray vdimia is made of fleume naturale, which is no þing els þan blode crude or rawe or diminutely cocte.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)30b/a : Of fleume crude grosse & muscilaginous ar gendred al nodez i. knottez & exiturez fleumatic.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)86a/a : Grosse and viscose & trublie & crude humidite þat renneþ fro it [fistule].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)142a/b : If þe cause be crude humour.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)159b/a : Crude i. rawe & indigeste.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.18ra (1.4) : If it so be þat one take colde fro wiþoutward, þan is þe vryn whitisshe and crude, i. raw.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.20ra (1.4) : Þai þat ar replete and ful and fatte, þai make vryn crude and whitisshe; but þai þat suffre mykel hunger or þirste or bene mykel abstynent and folke lene and swonge don e contrario.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.20ra (1.4) : Syn þat it is..crud & dym in colour, it causeþ swiche colour in þe vryn.
Note: Antedates sense (b). New spelling: crud.