† scirrhen.

Forms: 1500s scirhe, 1500s shirre, 1500s–1700s schirre, 1600s schirrh, 1600s schirrhe, 1600s schyrrhe, 1600s scyrrhe, 1600s skirrh, 1700s schir.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French scirrhe.

Etymology: < Middle French, French †scirrhe, †scirre, †schirre (1538; French squirre , squirrhe ) < classical Latin scirros or its etymon ancient Greek σκίρρος scirrhus n. Compare Spanish escirro (17th cent.), Italian scirro (1741). Compare earlier scirrhus n., and perhaps also skyre n.

Obsolete.

= scirrhus n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > hard tumour

sclerosis1398

scirrhus1565

scirrhe?a1591

scirrhoma1601

nodea1610

scleriasis1684

sclerocele1811

scleroma1857

?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 161 Ploukkis, scirhes [1591 shirres] & atrie phlegmis.

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. iv. xii. sig. L2 Schirre is a tumor hard with litle or no dolor, or feeling, whereof there are two kindes.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. xix. 207 Whether the matrice haue a schirre in it and be hard or swolne.

1659 W. S. Macollo's XCIX Canons in Physick 66 The latter declares an intemperature, that is, an inflammation, a skirrh or wind to be in those parts [liver and stomach, etc.].

1740 J. Sparrow tr. B. Saviard Observ. Surg. cxi. 254 The Mesentery itself..was grown so very large by the Obstruction of its Glands, that it seemed to have degenerated into a Schirre.

1761 in tr. A. Störck 2nd Ess. Hemlock 3 The translator, who cannot but be offended, as well as most readers are, with the disagreeable hissing of the word schirrusses, and considering also schirs as a sound more natural, and better adapted to the genius of the English language, hesitated not in his preference.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	scirrhe
释义	† scirrhen. Forms: 1500s scirhe, 1500s shirre, 1500s–1700s schirre, 1600s schirrh, 1600s schirrhe, 1600s schyrrhe, 1600s scyrrhe, 1600s skirrh, 1700s schir. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French scirrhe. Etymology: < Middle French, French †scirrhe, †scirre, †schirre (1538; French squirre , squirrhe ) < classical Latin scirros or its etymon ancient Greek σκίρρος scirrhus n. Compare Spanish escirro (17th cent.), Italian scirro (1741). Compare earlier scirrhus n., and perhaps also skyre n. Obsolete. = scirrhus n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > hard tumour sclerosis1398 scirrhus1565 scirrhe?a1591 scirrhoma1601 nodea1610 scleriasis1684 sclerocele1811 scleroma1857 ?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 161 Ploukkis, scirhes [1591 shirres] & atrie phlegmis. 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. iv. xii. sig. L2 Schirre is a tumor hard with litle or no dolor, or feeling, whereof there are two kindes. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. xix. 207 Whether the matrice haue a schirre in it and be hard or swolne. 1659 W. S. Macollo's XCIX Canons in Physick 66 The latter declares an intemperature, that is, an inflammation, a skirrh or wind to be in those parts [liver and stomach, etc.]. 1740 J. Sparrow tr. B. Saviard Observ. Surg. cxi. 254 The Mesentery itself..was grown so very large by the Obstruction of its Glands, that it seemed to have degenerated into a Schirre. 1761 in tr. A. Störck 2nd Ess. Hemlock 3 The translator, who cannot but be offended, as well as most readers are, with the disagreeable hissing of the word schirrusses, and considering also schirs as a sound more natural, and better adapted to the genius of the English language, hesitated not in his preference. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?a1591
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