† trochisk Obs.
(ˈtrəʊkɪsk)
Forms: 5 trocis, 6 -cysce, -cyske, -cisque, 6–7 -ciske, -chiske, -chisce, -chisque, -chis, 7 -cisk, -chisc(k, -chisch, -chisq, 7–8 trochisk, (erron. 5 -ciste, 6 -chist, 7–8 -chiste); also, in L. form trochiscus.
[a. F. trochisque (trocisque, trocisse, 1425 in Godef. Compl.) = It. trochisco, Ger. trochisk; ad. L. trochiscus, a. Gr. τροχίσκος small wheel, small globe, pill, lozenge, dim. of τροχός wheel.]
A medicated tablet or disk; a (round or ovate) pastille or lozenge; = troche n.2
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 211 Þou schalt purge him with trocis de turbit, or wiþ anoþer medicyn þat purgiþ fleume. c 1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula (E.E.T.S.) 91 When..it is cold..enforme þerof trocistes. 1525 tr. Jerome of Brunswick's Surg. F j b/2 Therof make a trocysce. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Formul. U ij b, Trociskes..be put to powdre, and with swete wyne incorporate, and be made to trociskes. 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde R ij, Temper the hole masse into litell roundels or trociskes. 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 109 Let Trochistes or lytle flat balles be made therof. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 64 Trochisks of Minium..mundifie sordid ulcers. 1625 Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 17 Poysons..rightly used..may be helpefull..: as it appeares in the trocisks of the vipers flesh. 1658 Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1056 The Dose is one Trochis, with one ounce of wine. 1665 G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 21 Perfume your sheets..by burning the said Trochisces in a warming pan. 1748 tr. Vegetius' Distemp. Horses 136 Give him..one Trochisk a Day dissolved in Water. |