cuiture (c.1185)

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cuiture (c.1185)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 2/ii,1166a coquere; Gdf: 2,399b cuiture; GdfC: ; TL: 2,1145 cuiture; DEAF: ; DMF:  cuiture; TLF: ; OED:  quitter n.1; MED:  quitter(e n.; DMLBS: ]
quisture,  quitur,  quiture;  quytur,  quyture; 
pl. quiturus  

Sense 1, ‘(med.) pus, purulent discharge from a wound’, does not seem to be attested in Continental French, but is found in English from the early fourteenth century onwards (as the main sense of quitter n.1).

Although the association with the verb cuire1 (‘to cook’ or ‘to burn’) is not immediately apparent for sense 1, the OED (Third edition, 2008) believes that quitter derives from the same etymon as Old French cuiture (‘cauterization’): coquere. Consequently, while AND2 originally treated sense 1 and sense 2 as two separate entries, they have now been unified.

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1med.pus, purulent discharge from a wound
( c.1185 )  Quant il mielz le quident garir La plaie comence a festrir; Quant seins est d'une part del cors, D'altre part salt quiture hors  2150
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1245 )  Item triblez le cerfoil, sil destemprez od le aubun de l'oef e quant vus irrez dormir, sil metez sur les oilz e, s'il i ad ren de malveis sanc u de quiture, tut le juttera hors  111.29
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  taillez le quir od un ostil que est apelé sagitelle e laissiez la quiture hors cure  i 55.xxxiii
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  si crut agregement Dunt les os par quiture se delocherent Par les overtures ke tant deguterent  M305
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  Si vous supplie, beau tresdouz Meistres, q'il vous plese de regarder mes plaies par charité, et ordener q'elles soient nettoiez de la lede et orde quyture qe en court a grande foison  128
pathol.med.(suppurating) irritation of the skin, (purulent) sore
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Por oster quitures et por covrir les si mete l'en ventouses oveques garses detriés le col et entre les espaules  i 249
( c.1300; MS: s.xivin )  Encuntre quiture des oraylles dient les autors ke i[l] covient ke le patient seit espurgé ovekes oximelle juliani  ii 154.82
( MS: s.xiv )  prurigo, prurigaris gallice: dicitur quitre  (ms. quitur)  ii 155.21
2med.cauterization, the process of burning skin or flesh of a wound with a heated instrument or caustic substance to prevent infection or stop bleeding
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiv )  Pur dolur de quisez: Triblét les crotes de berbis od eisil, si oinét les quises sovent, si vus fetes une quiture desus le genil  139
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  [A]l passion sciatiche faites trois quiturus sur le liu de scie, ce est de l'os rond, e une quiture al remedie de tot le cors  i 86.xvii
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Fraunceys, pur la allegaunce De sa tres amere grevaunce, Par arsun e par quisture Receyvre deveyt mut greve cure. Kaunt Fraunceys aveit veu Le fer ke esteut espris du fu, Le cors de feu out hydur  2279
( MS: s.xiv1 )  U fra quiture desus les garez  45.393
cuire#1  cuison  cuiturer 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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