Obs. Forms: α. 4, 6 sticados, 6 stycados, stichados; β. 67 stechados, 7 stœ-, stæchados, stæ-, stecados, stecadose; 6 stechado, steckado, 7 -doe. See also STICKADOVE, STICKADOOR. [a. med.L. sticados, stecados etc., corrupt forms of L. stœchados genit. of stœchas STŒCHAS.] French Lavender, Lavandula stœchas.
α. 1516. Gt. Herbal, cccxc. (1529), X iv b. Sticados citrine is called barba iouis , and hercules grasse. De stycados Arabyke. Sticad[o]s arabyke is an herbe that groweth in sharpe places & hylles.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary (1870), 288. Mayden-heere, and stycados. Ibid., 289. Sticados.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 148. The broth of stichados is profitable and good for the diseases of the breste.
β. 1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. lxi. 89. Golde floure Motheworte, or Golden Stechados.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Cantuesso, stechado.
1597, 1611. Steckado [see STICKADOVE].
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iv. I. v. 448. Camomile, Stœchados, &c. to be vsed after bathing.
1639. O. Wood, Alph. Bk. Secrets, 3. Wherein infuse some Stœchados. Ibid., 26. The flowers of Stæcados. Ibid., 227. Stecadose, or French Lavander, opens all stoppings in body.
1641. French, Distill., ii. (1651), 57. The flowers of Stechados.