† botenv.
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To recover from an illness, etc.; to be healed, get better.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)]
wholeeOE
botenc1225
cover1297
amendc1325
recovera1375
warisha1386
recovera1387
healc1390
recurec1400
soundc1402
mendc1440
convalesce1483
guarish1489
restore1494
refete?a1505
revert1531
to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589
cure1597
recruit1644
to perk upa1656
retrieve1675
to pick up1740
to leave one's bed1742
to sit up and take nourishment1796
to get round1798
to come round1818
to pull through1830
rally1831
to fetch round1870
to mend up1877
to pull round1889
recoup1896
recuperate1897
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 52 Ant comen dumbe & deaue to hire bodi as hit lei, & botneden alle.
?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 768 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 302 Ase me him in tounbe dude, A wodmon botnede y the stude, Ant a blindmon hede sihte.
c1432 Short Metrical Chron. (Cambr. Dd.14.2) f. 276v (MED) Seek men þer botened.
2. transitive. To cure, heal, make better.
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the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person or part
wholeeOE
healc1000
betterOE
i-sundienc1175
salvea1225
botenc1225
savea1250
warishc1250
recurea1382
curec1384
mendc1390
remedya1470
cheerc1540
loosea1637
to pull through1816
rehab1973
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 1148 Þet healeð alle uueles & botneð men of euch bale.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1055 Þei were botned of here bales strong.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 179 (MED) Blynde and Bedraden weore Botned [c1400 Trin. Cambr. R.3.14 botind; B text botened, Trin. Cambr. B.15.17 bootned; C text botnede] a þousent.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 174 Þer haþ ben botynd mone a mon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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