单词 | mormal |
释义 | mormaln. Now historical. 1. A sore or ulcer, usually with a dry crust or scab, found esp. on the legs. Also figurative. Now historical.Probably used non-specifically; the description in quot. 1543 suggests ecthyma or impetigo. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer cankereOE rankle?c1190 fester?c1225 gutefestre?c1225 malemorte1341 mormalc1387 red gownc1400 ulcerc1400 fistula?a1425 esthiomene?1541 fret1545 exulceration1551 phagedaena1567 sycosis1580 ulceration1580 run1648 ulcuscle1794 festering1804 c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 386 Greet harm was it..That on his shyne a mormal [v.r. marymole] hadde he. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 178 Þe blood-letyng of þis veyne is good..for cancrena þat ben in þe hipis & for a mormal. c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 230 Also ij men haue bene helede þere of þe morimal. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 214 Ȝyf mormal be wasche wyþ þe water þat aded mon was y wasche wyþ, hyt schal drye hyt vp. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 39 He can hele and cure..mormale. a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 247 Luxiria is a lither mormale. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiv Some with the marmoll to halte I them make. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. ii. x. f. cxlii To hele ye foule marmole of theyr skabbed shynnys. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. v. f. 164/1 Of the deed euyll, or mortmale. The deed euyl..is a maligne, fylthy, and corrupt scabbe, which begynneth for ye most part in ye armes, thyghes & legges, & chefly in the legges it causeth crusty pustles, ful of fylthy matter. c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) ii. iv. sig. Dv The festred and stinking Cores of olde marmolles and inueterate sores of the weale publique. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 41 For Festers, Mermoles, sores of the yard, and all other sores, take Ash [etc.]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 588 Such morimals or sores as scorne ordinary cures & be full of suppuration. 1616 B. Jonson Mercurie Vindicated in Wks. I. 1006 They will giue him a quantity of the quintessence, shall serue him to cure kibes, or the mormall o'the shinne. 1741 G. Ogle Canterbury Tales I. 25 A Mormal on his Shin had taken Place; And sorely griev'd. 1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) II. 42 Mormal, a bile or sore of a virulent nature. 1925 Mod. Lang. Notes 40 2 There is hardly room for argument about the fact that..even local and personal allusions were introduced [in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales] to an astonishing degree,—perhaps in such cases as..the very mormal on the Cook's shin. 1955 Mod. Lang. Notes 70 323 Summarizing the authorities, a mormal (malum mortuum) is caused by ‘uncleanly personal habits.., and by disgraceful association with diseased and filthy women’. 1992 J. H. Fisher Importance of Chaucer iii. 96 The illustrator of the Ellesmere manuscript..to insure that the observer would not miss the reference..bandaged the Cook's ‘mormal’ like a major wound, and gilded the Miller's thumb and Physician's flask. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of nails > [noun] wartwalec1325 flaw1574 liverage1598 pterygium1601 hangnail1678 mormal1685 agnail1737 onychia1814 defluvium1817 onychogryphosis1833 liver-sick1836 ingrowing1852 backfriend1864 onychomycosis1865 white lie1899 koilonychia1902 1685 J. Cooke's Marrow Chirurg. (ed. 4) i. xi. 75 There are also little Marmoles, so called by some, which are little bits of the Skin that rise near to the Nails. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mormaladj. Perhaps a mistaken inference from mormal n. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mormal, grievous, dangerous. (Obs.). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1387adj.1864 |
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