cyminare

cyminare 1 to flavour w. cumin (in pun on William Cumin, intruded into bishopric of Durham). sed quod inops flavos Albanus inalliat Anglos / sive cuminat, opus miror, amice, novum; / iret et in risum, si non boreale cuminum / isset in helleborum L. Durh. Dial. I 160. 2 (p. ppl. as sb. f.). electuary made from cumin. dyagalanga, dyaceraseos, dianisus, ciminata Alexandrina Gilb. VI 264 v. 1; 1252 pro vj lib. cominat’ Alex’, v s. KR Ac 349/10 (cf. ib.: pro ix lib. cuminat’ Alex’); 1265 ~a Alexand’, iiij lib. ‥, prec’ lib. x d. (Ib. 350/1) Nott. Med. Stud. III 40; si fuerit propter ventositatem, ‥, utatur ‥ diacimino et ‥ dianiso et cimino, aurea Alexandrina et ciminata Alexandrina Gad. 69. 2.

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