10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAMMETRY»
Discover the use of
mammetry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mammetry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Notes on the Contributions of the Rev. George Townsend, M.A. ...
the official, that these things were " all maumetrie," or " mammetry." This the Editor
has explained in a note at Vol. III. p. 327, to mean " Puppet or idol- worship;"
which meaning, or something like it, it certainly came to have ; but the original ...
Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1841
2
English: past and present, 5 lectures
We have another singular example of the same, and of a parallel injustice, in the
way in which the word ' mammetry,' which is a contraction of ' Mahometry,' is
employed by our early English writers. Mahometanism being the most prominent
...
Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.), 1859
3
On the study of words: Lectures
3 3 prominent form of false religion with which our ancestors came in contact, '
mammetry' was used, up to and beyond the Reformation, to designate first any
false religion, and then the worship of idols; idolatry being proper to, and a
leading ...
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1872
4
JANE EYRE. An Autobiography.
We have another of a parallel injustice, in the use which " mammetry," a
contraction of " Manometry, " obtained in our early English. Mahometanism being
the most prominent form of false religion with which our ancestors came in
contact, ...
5
On the study of words, 5 lectures
We have another singular example of the same, and of a parallel injustice, in the
way in which the word ' mammetry,' which is a contraction of ' Mahometry,' is
employed by our early English writers. Mahometanism being the most prominent
...
Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.), 1853
6
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Preliminary ...
... the greatest sin of Mammetry.1 Also I suppose this fully, That every man in this
earth is a pilgrim toward Pilgrim- bliss, or toward pain ; and that he that knoweth
not, ne will not Know, ne>keep "S1'' the holy commandments of God in his living ...
John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, George Townsend, 1837
We charge the prelatical clergy with popery, to make them odious, though we
know they are guilty of no such thing; just as heretofore they called images
mammets, and the adoration of images mammetry: that is, ma/wmet and
malzometry, ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
8
The history of the works of the learned: 1739,2
... utter Averfion to Idols and Images in the Service of Godf These Persecutions of
the l "' Nothing is more usual than to hear common People call lmages Mammesr,
and Idolatry Mammetry, tho' both are slriftly sorbzdden by the Law of Mahomet.
9
Richard II. Henry IV, part I
We charge the prelatical clergy with popery, to make them odious, though we
know they are guilty of no such thing; just .as heretofore they called images
mammets, and the adoration of images mammetry: that is, mahomet and
mahometry, ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, 1821
10
Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Identity and ...
... Beast in the Apocalypse in the Revelation of St John, so he must be the Anti-
Christ. With his name corrupted to Mahound, Muhammad became the Devil
Incarnate. Consequently, stemming from Mahound and Mahomet, the term
mammetry ...
