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tisane|tɪˈzæn|
[Mod. re-adoption of Fr. tisane: see ptisan, which it has largely supplanted.]
A medicinal tea or infusion made from herbs.
1931W. Cather Shadows on Rock i. iv. 29 He kept them away from doctors,—gave them tisanes and herb-teas and poultices. 1941W. Fortescue Trampled Lilies v. 52 A communicating room could be used as a kitchen..where hot chocolate, coffee, and tisanes could be prepared for the men. 1959News Chron. 6 July 6/5 Old ladies..drink herb teas in France, where they are called tisanes. 1965Punch 7 July p. xii/2 The health food shop with..lime flower tisanes and heather honey. 1981M. Gee Dying, in Other Words xlix. 114 And the tea, the lime-flower tisane which was good for her chest and smelled citrous and fresh, singing to her when she drank it of blue summer skies over yellow-green lime trees.
▸ † Barley that has been peeled, husked, or cooked. Obs. (rare in later use).
a1425Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 66, Tipsana, ordeum decorticatis vel cortis [a 1500 Canterbury Cath. Libr. decorticatum vel coctum], thysane. c1475Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 128v, Tysan, ptisana. 1601P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 33 Vnlesse it be taken with Ptisane, or husked Barly alone. 1612W. Vaughan Approved Direct. Health vii. 77 Take halfe an ounce of Cassia fistula, a drachme of Rheubarbe, and infuse them in water of Endiue with an ounce of the sirupe of Limonds: The next morning mingle all these with three ounces of Ptisan or Whay, and drinke this infusion warme. 1688R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vii. 317 Ptisan, or Husk of Corn. 1756J. Greive tr. A. C. Celsus Of Med. iii. xxii. 167 The food at first ought to be pungent..afterwards mild, as gruel made from ptisan, or alica, or from starch, with the addition of milk. 1858R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Ptisana, barley pounded and made into balls... A ptisan, tisane.
▸ † tisane broth n. Obs. rare
1583P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. iii. 178 Minister againe *Ptysan broth. 1797Anecd. Most Remarkable Highwaymen 131 The week after, if his distemper increases, we may venture a little ptisan broth boiled with some husked barley.
▸ † tisane vender n. Obs. rare
1815tr. V. J. E. de Jouy Paris Chit-chat (1816) I. 61 Narrow-brimmed hats, fit only for *ptisan venders. |