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▪ I. caudle, n.|ˈkɔːd(ə)l|
Forms: 3–6 caudel, 4–7 cawdel(l, 5 cawdelle, cawdille, 5–6 caudelle, 5–7 caudell, (6 cadle, cawdale), 7–8 cawdle, (8 Sc. caddel), 6– caudle.
[a. ONF. caudel (= central OF. chaudel, mod.F. chaudeau):—med.L. caldellum, dim. of caldum, calidum (neut. of caldus, calidus warm) ‘a hot drink’.]
1. A warm drink consisting of thin gruel, mixed with wine or ale, sweetened and spiced, given chiefly to sick people, esp. women in childbed; also to their visitors.
1297R. Glouc. (1824) 561 As me seiþ, wan ich am ded, make me a caudel. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 205 Glotoun was a gret cherl..and cowhede vp a cawdel in clementes lappe. c1400Beryn 431 Sit and ete þe cawdell..þat was made With sugir and with swete wyne. 1483Caxton Bk. for Trav., Potages, caudell for the seke, chaudel. 1540T. Raynalde Byrth Man ii. x. (1634) 152 It is a common vsage to give often to women in theyr childbed, caudels of Ote⁓meale. 1570Levins Manip. 9 A cadle, potiuncula ouacea. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 164 A comfortable Caudle made with some Wine, Spices, Sugar, and the yolk of an egge. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xxi. 137 They cast out of their ship..much suger, and packs of spices, making a caudle of the sea round about. 1659–60Pepys Diary (1879) I. 85 Went to bed and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. 1765London Chron. 29 Aug. 202 The resort of different ranks of people at St. James's to receive the Queen's Caudle is now very great. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 90 She went to see the grocer's wife on an interesting occasion, and won the heart of the family by tasting their caudle.
†b. caudle of hemp-seed, hempen caudle (ironically): = hanging. Obs.
1588Marprel. Epist. (1845) 22 He hath prooued you to haue deserued a cawdell of Hempseed, and a playster of neckweed. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 95 Ye shall haue a hempen Caudle then, and the help of hatchet.
2. Comb. caudle-cup.
1657in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 153 One Cawdell Cupp with a top. 1672Davenant News fr. Plymouth (1673) 14. 1743 Fielding Jon. Wild iii. vii, A pint silver caudle-cup, the gift of her grandmother. 1820D. Turner Tour Normandy II. 150 The odd mixture of caudle-cup, compliment and courtly flattery.
▪ II. caudle, v.|ˈkɔːd(ə)l|
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To administer a caudle to.
1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 226 Will the cold brooke Candied with Ice, cawdle thy Morning taste. 1672Davenant Love & Hon. (1673) 256 Cawdled like a Haberdashers Wife That lies in of her first Child. 1832Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 458 [They] have caudled and beflannelled themselves.
2. To mix, as in a caudle.
1790H. Boyd in Poet. Register (1808) 133 Blessings unsophisticate and pure; Not caudled for our taste with dregs terrene. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) V. 44 His Highness has inextricably caudled the two together.
3. To talk over, lecture (a husband). [A nonce-use from ‘Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures’.]
1845Tait's Mag. XII. 482 The mother is easily convinced..she must Caudle her husband into the same conviction. |