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Sage, Sege, n.¹ Also: saige, seige, seage. [ME sauge (a1310), salge (Gower), sawge (?c1390), late ME and e.m.E. sage (c1420), OF salje, saulje, sauge (11th c., 13th c. and 1320 in Larousse), L. salvia.]

1. Sage, the plant or herb.See also wode sege, s.v. Wode n. I 4 e. a1500 Henr. Practysis 29.
With sueit satlingis and sowrokis, the sop of the sege [: colleraige, luffage] c1500 Makc. MS xiii 62.
Hec salgea, sage a1568 Bann. MS 256b/12.
Gud aile and sege salbe my waige, away ligging alone a1595 Misc. Spald. C. II xxxi.
For esking tak sege and stamp it with winager and eit the same 1600-1610 Melvill 431.
Yie, wha, lauching in your sleive, … maks this mater seage unto your drink a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 151.
[Saluia,] Anglice, saige, Scotiæ concessa 1636 Caldwell P. 91.
Tak three muschkeens of Malvosie, and ane handfull of red sage, & a handfull of rew, and boyll them till a mutchkeen be wasted 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. cxl (Bot.).
Saluia, saige 16.. M^cPherson Prim. Beliefs 248.
For the barne bed she gave the fever fuilyis, the red netill, seige and wabroun leaff 16.. Nat. Lib. MS 22.2.11.
Take … two drope of clows and some of the powder of sage [etc.]

b. attrib. and comb. 1606 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 50.
To ȝour seage cullorit fustiane dowblet 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI 98.
Aucht elnes Inglis claith of saige cullour at iiij li. the elne

2. Wild sage, a name given to the plant ambrose or hindheal. 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. xx (Adv.).
Ambrosiana, vyld sege, vild sage Ib. xx (Bot.).
Ambrosiana, hyndhele or wildsaige