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mandraken. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mandragora n. Etymology: Shortened < mandragora n. The α. forms are probably due to association with drake n.1 (compare mandragon n.). Compare Anglo-Norman mandrake, mandrage, mendrak, mendrake, Middle Dutch mandrage, mandragre. 1. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > mandrake the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > narcotic > plant-derived α. a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 32 Muge he is ant mondrake. a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 39v Ma[n]dragora, genus dulcis pomi, a mandrak. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich (1896) 231 Leues of mandrake. a1543 in A. Amherst (1896) 74 (MED) Herbys necessary for a gardyn..Mandrake. 1560 Gen. xxx. 14 Reuben..found mandrakes [margin Which is a kinde of herbe, whose rote hath a certeine likenes of ye figure of a man] in the field. 1594 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 314 Could curses kill as do the Mandrakes groanes, I would inuent..many. 1599 W. Shakespeare iv. iii. 46 And shrikes like mandrakes torne out of the earth. View more context for this quotation 1599 T. Heywood sig. T2 The Mandracks shreeks are musick to their cries. 1610 J. Donne Pref. sig. C3 Annibal, to entrappe and surprise his enemies, mingled their wine with Mandrake, whose operation is betwixt sleepe and poyson. c1635 H. Glapthorne (1959) v. 105 Horrid grots, and mossie graues where the mandraks hideous howles welcome bodies voide of Soules. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. I. 80 The Mandrake is a Plant without a Stem. 1879 J. Timbs in IV. 106/1 The Greeks and the Romans used the root of the mandrake to cause insensibility to pain. 1974 E. Pollard et al. ix. 108 The true mandrake, Mandragora officinalis, was thought to help women to conceive children. 1987 ‘C. Gidley’ (1988) (BNC) 114 She remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy, which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused 1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in (1998) I. 201 Mandrag, mymmerkin, maid maister bot in mows. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) 65 in (1910) Gang trot in ane tow, mandrak but myance. 1593 G. Harvey 193 Correct the Mandrake of scurrility with the myrrhe of curtesie. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton i. ii. 60 Gods my life, hee's a verie mandrake. 1610 J. Mason ii. i Thou that amongst a hundred thousand dreames Crownd with a wreath of mandrakes sitst as Queene. 1660 R. L'Estrange 7 Our laws [during the Commonwealth] have been Mandrakes of a Nights growth. 1676 A. Marvell sig. H If they have a mind to pull up that Mandrake, it were adviseable..to chuse out a Dog for the Imployment. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor i. iv. 132 When we lust after mandrakes and deliciousness of exteriour ministries. 2. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > mandrake > plant substituted for 1579 T. Lupton iii. 61 The counterfeat Mandrag, which hath bene sold by deceyuers, for much money. 1597 J. Gerard ii. 281 The idle drones that haue little or nothing to do but eate and drinke, haue bestowed some of their time in caruing the rootes of Brionie, forming them to the shape of men & women; which falsifying practise hath confirmed the errour amongst the simple..people, who haue taken them vpon their report to be the true Mandrakes. 1657 W. Coles cxci. 300 The Root [of Briony] somtimes groweth to the bigness of a Childe of a yeare old, so that it hath been by some cut into the forme of a Man, and called a Mandrake, being set againe into the Earth. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau xvi. 204 These pretended Mandrakes, are said to be roots of Angelica or Bryony. 1889 E. Peacock (ed. 2) II. 339 Quacks profess to sell something which they call ‘the true mandrake’. They tell their dupes that it is a specific for causing women to conceive. In England it is almost always the white bryony. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bryony 1886 R. Holland 217 Mandrake, the plant Bryonia dioica. W. Ches. 1920 J. Vaughan xix. 141 It [sc. white bryony] is an elegant plant—the only representative among our wild species of the cucumber tribe... It is, moreover, an interesting species because of the part it played in mediæval superstition. It is still known as mandrake in the Isle of Wight and elsewhere, and was formerly largely used in herbalism. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > podophyllum or May-apple 1778 J. Carver 118 In the country belonging to these people it is said, that Mandrakes are frequently found. 1807 C. Schultz Let. 20 Sept. in (1810) I. 144 The only fruits I have met with, with which you are unacquainted, are the mandrake and papaw. 1836 C. P. Traill 248 There is a plant in our woods, known by the names of man-drake, may-apple, and duck's foot. 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln (new ed.) App. 143/2 Podophyllum peltatum (wild mandrake, may-apple). 1887 872 Mandrake, may apple, or hog apple. 1949 Aug. 484/1 On a shady hillside not far from a brook we find a patch of May apples, or mandrakes. 1979 G. Ajilvsgi 144 Mandrake... Berry..lemon-shaped, to 2 in. long. Compounds C1. General attributive. a1593 C. Marlowe (1633) v. sig. I2 I dranke of Poppy, and cold mandrake juyce. 2003 www.shadowplayzine.com 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) When Jesus was given the sponge of vinegar to drink, while on the cross, it was full of mandrake juice as well. ?a1425 f. 160v (MED) Take..letuse, violete, grete morel, hennebane, mandrake leues, peny worte. 2003 www.angelfire.com 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) For eye pain relief they either used dressing made of mandrake leaves or they mixed other eye medicine with mandrake or hemlock juice. a1631 J. Donne (1633) 196 Get with child a mandrake roote. 1753 Suppl. Mandragorites Vinum, Mandrake Wine, a sort of medicinal impregnation of wine with the virtues of Mandrake root. 1824 H. Phillips I. 354 The Mandrake root is an anodyne and soporific. 1992 C. P. Estés iii. 88 The mandrake root is praised for its resemblance to the human body. C2. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > mandrake > fruit of 1563 T. Gale iv. i. i. f. 1v Of simple medicines repercussiue these are some..Mandrage apples, & iuse. 1603 C. Heydon xx. 417 Rachel enuying her sister Leahs fertilitie importuned Mandrag apples, to supplie her barrennesse. 1620 T. Dekker sig. D3 Being mounted on a Spirits back, which ran With Mandrake-shrikes, and like a Lubrican. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > medicinal wine the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > medicated wine > specific a1640 R. Burton (1651) ii. ii. vi. i. 293 A friends counsel is a charm, like mandrake wine. 1753 Suppl. Mandragorites Vinum, Mandrake Wine, a sort of medicinal impregnation of wine with the virtues of Mandrake root. 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