† menisonn.
Obsolete.
Severe diarrhoea; dysentery (esp. in bloody menison; cf. bloody flux n.).
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menisonc1250
flux1377
dysentery1382
bloody fluxa1398
fluxion1563
cackerel1659
apricot sickness1945
c1250 in Englische Studien (1935) 70 239 He was in perlesie, þe vallinde..scabbede, on þe menison.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2367 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 174 Toward þe deþe he drouȝ, And fur-pinede in þe menisone þat is lif him þouȝte long.
c1300 St. Lucy (Harl.) 6 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 566 For four ȝer heo hadde..þe meneisoun stronge.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 998 God almiȝti..sent Ypocras for his tresoun Sone þer after þe menesoun.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 111 (MED) Bothe meseles & mute and in þe menysoun blody, Ofte he heled suche.
a1456 (a1402) J. Trevisa tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (BL Add.) f. 99 (MED) I hadde twelue yeer þe blody menesoun [v.r. þe blody menson], and I touched þe hemme of his clooþes.
?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 35 Meny men deide on the blody mensoun.
1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 76v/2 The blody menson, discenteria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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