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▪ I. fumitory|ˈfjuːmɪtərɪ| Forms: α. 4–5 fumeter(e, 4, 6 -terre, 4–7 fumiterre, 4–5 -ytere, (5 fumtere, fymterre), 6 femiter, -ar. β. 6 fume(n)torie, femetary, fumitarie, -orie, (fumyterry, -tory), 7 fume-, fumitery, 8 fumetory, 6– fumitory. [a. OF. fumeterre, ad. med.L. fūmus terræ lit. ‘smoke of the earth’; so called because ‘it spryngyth{ddd}out of the erthe in grete quantyte as smoke dooth other fumosyte that comyth of the erthe’ (Trevisa, tr. Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxix). In the 16th c. the ending was confused with -ary, -ory. The med.L. name is also represented by Pr. fumterra, and corruptly by It. fummosterno; translated forms are Ger. erdrauch, Sw. jordrök, Eng. earth-smoke; cf. the Sp., Pg. fumaria, whence the mod.L. botanical name.] A plant of the genus Fumaria (or the related Corydalis), usually F. officinalis. αc1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 143 Of lauriol, centaure, and fumeterre. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon) 22/1 Fumus terre, fumeter. c1440Promp. Parv. 161 Fymterre, herbe, fumus terre. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 158 Take þe jus..of fumtere, [etc.]. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 67, I sau fumeterre, that tempris ane heyt lyuyr. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xv. 23 There is two kindes of Fumeterre. 1601Holland Pliny II. 247 Fumiterre the herb whosoeuer do eat, shal purge choler by vrine. β1516Grete Herball K vj a, De Fumo terre, Fumyterry. 1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 58 a, Wylde hoppes: Wormewode: Centorie: Fumitorie. 1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 23 Capnos called in latin Fumaria, and in englishe Fumitarie..in frenche fumiterre. 1573Tusser Husb. xci. (1878) 182 Get water of Fumentorie, Liuer to coole. 1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 53 Whey with Fumitery. 1670Ray Catal. Plant. Angl. 122 Climbing-Fumitory. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 295 Fumitory is good to cure the itch, scurf and tetters. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiv. 346 Fumitory has two filaments, each..terminated by three anthers. 1802–3tr. Pallas' Trav. (1812) I. 90 The Fumaria bulbosa, or great bulbous fumitory. 1861Delamer Fl. Gard. 88 Fumitory—Fumaria of the old botanists, Corydalis of the moderns..The Tuberous Fumitory, C. bulbosa. b. attrib.
1576Baker Jewell of Health 199 b, Taken with Fumyterre water..it cureth the Leprie. ▪ II. fumitory incorrect form of fumatory. |