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sebesten Bot.|sɪˈbɛstən|
Also 7 sebastan, 8 sebest, (sebesta), 9 sebestin, sebestan.
[a. Arab. sabastān, a. Persian sapistān.
Said to have been originally seg-pistān, lit. ‘dog's teats’. The word is found in several European langs.: F. sébeste, Sp. sebesten, sebasta, Pg. sebeste, -a, It. sebesten.]
The plum-like fruit of a tree of the genus Cordia (formerly Sebestena); a preparation of this used as a medicine. Also the tree itself. Also attrib.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 74 Take a potel of water & of barly clensid .iiij.℥., juiube, sebesten ana. ᵹ.ss. [etc.]. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. Interpr., Sebesten bene frutes lyke prunes [etc.] c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (c 1560) R v b, Reasons, myrabolans, Sebesten sede. Ibid. Y iv, Take of violettes, sebesten, of Borage floures [etc.]. 1601Holland Pliny xvii. x. I. 511 The fruit Sebesten [L. myxas, F. sebesten] and the Servises may be graffed and planted both upon the same kind of stocke. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 294 Pears, Prunellaes, Sebastans. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Syrup for Asthmas, Having boiled all for half an Hour more, put in the stoned Dates chopt with the Jujubes, Sebests and Raisins of the Sun. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Sebesten, The Syrians make a kind of glue or birdlime, of the sebestens, called birdlime of Alexandria. 1828Lancet 14 June 326/1 In diseases affecting the mucous membranes..cardamom, licorice, and sebestin (fruits of cordia myxa) are used. 1858Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. s.v. Cordiaceæ, Cordia Myxa..is known as the Sebesten plum, and used formerly to be employed in disorders of the chest and urinary organs. 1866Treas. Bot., Sebestans, or Sebestens, the name under which the dried fruits of Cordia Myxa and C. latifolia have long been used as a medicine in India. |