† medewaxn.

Forms: late Middle English medewax, late Middle English medewex, late Middle English medewexe, late Middle English medwax, late Middle English medway (transmission error), late Middle English medwex, late Middle English myd wex (probably transmission error).

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed. Perhaps < mead n.² (perhaps designating wax made by wild bees as distinct from domestic honeybees; compare field bee n. at field n.¹ Compounds 3) or mead n.¹ (perhaps with reference to the honeyed scent of fresh beeswax) + wax n.¹An alternative etymology connects the first element with maid n.¹, and identifies the compound as parallel in formation and sense with virgin wax n. and maiden-wax n. at maiden n. and adj. Compounds 2, though the absence both of late Middle English -e- spellings and of the necessary extended sense ‘pure, unused’ for maid n.¹ render this theory less plausible.

Obsolete.

A kind of beeswax. Cf. virgin wax n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > wax

wax805

virgin waxc1400

medewax1416

pissoceros1658

mitys1706

maiden-wax1726

1416–19 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 9 (MED) Item..de nova cera empta ad luminare..festum Natalis domini, vi lib. de medewex.

c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 172 (MED) Tak of medewax..tyrbyntye.

c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 174 Entret pur bocches, biles..& huiusmodi. Tak of medwex 1 li, of barowes grece..as muche [etc.].

a1500 in L. F. Salzmann Medieval Byways (1913) iv. 120 Medwax..that is multen in woman's milk.

a1500 in L. F. Salzmann Medieval Byways (1913) iv. 120 Gud mede wax, bot loke the wax be molten first.

?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 65 Take rosin y-grounde and put þer-to, and myd wex.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	medewax
释义	† medewaxn. Forms: late Middle English medewax, late Middle English medewex, late Middle English medewexe, late Middle English medwax, late Middle English medway (transmission error), late Middle English medwex, late Middle English myd wex (probably transmission error). Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed. Perhaps < mead n.² (perhaps designating wax made by wild bees as distinct from domestic honeybees; compare field bee n. at field n.¹ Compounds 3) or mead n.¹ (perhaps with reference to the honeyed scent of fresh beeswax) + wax n.¹An alternative etymology connects the first element with maid n.¹, and identifies the compound as parallel in formation and sense with virgin wax n. and maiden-wax n. at maiden n. and adj. Compounds 2, though the absence both of late Middle English -e- spellings and of the necessary extended sense ‘pure, unused’ for maid n.¹ render this theory less plausible. Obsolete. A kind of beeswax. Cf. virgin wax n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > wax wax805 virgin waxc1400 medewax1416 pissoceros1658 mitys1706 maiden-wax1726 1416–19 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 9 (MED) Item..de nova cera empta ad luminare..festum Natalis domini, vi lib. de medewex. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 172 (MED) Tak of medewax..tyrbyntye. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 174 Entret pur bocches, biles..& huiusmodi. Tak of medwex 1 li, of barowes grece..as muche [etc.]. a1500 in L. F. Salzmann Medieval Byways (1913) iv. 120 Medwax..that is multen in woman's milk. a1500 in L. F. Salzmann Medieval Byways (1913) iv. 120 Gud mede wax, bot loke the wax be molten first. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 65 Take rosin y-grounde and put þer-to, and myd wex. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1416
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