10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAUMETRY»
Discover the use of
maumetry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
maumetry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and ...
Maumetry occurs in C. M. (1300) in two different meanings, namely 'idolatry' and '
idols collectively' and in Handl. S. (1303) in the sense of 'an idol'. The fact that the
word shows not less than three different significations at its first appearance in ...
2
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Bot thus he ordand for thalre sake In that same place to edify A temple for thaire
maumetry. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 90. The synne of mawmettrie is the ftrste
thyng that God deffended in the ten commaundments. Chaucer, Parson's Tale.
3
Middle English Dictionary
... Mannyng Chron.Pt.l l336: Pey. . founde. . a temple. . Pat whilom be folk mys-
lyuande Worschiped ber-inne Maumetry. al500 (?al400) SLChrist 4347:
Circumdederunt singun we, As holi chirch wer mysleuyng bat any grace of syn
shuld be.
Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis, 1977
4
The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
95. How the mammet twitters ! Massinger, The Picture, 1. 1. maumetriset, «. [ME.
mawmetryse : see maumetry.] Same as maumetry. In this comandement es
forboden all mawmetryse, aU wychecrafte and charemynge. llampole, Prose
Treatises ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1890
5
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: A New and Complete Edition
... conferring with his council and his nobles, was bap- blamedtized of Paulinus at
York,2 with many of his other subjects with him ; insomuch that Coifi,' the chief of
the prelates of his old maumetry, armed himself with his idolatrous bishops, and ...
John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, George Townsend, 1841
6
Legends of the Holy Rood
To his eldest son the impious king resigned his throne, and for many 'a day
practised his cursed “ maumetry.” In those days there was an emperor named
Heraclius, who was renowned far and wide as a brave, pious, and God-fearing ...
7
The riches of Chaucer: in which his impurities have been ...
I say by treatise and ambassadry, And by the Popds mediation, And all the
church, and all the chivalry, That in destruction of Maumetry,1 230 And in
increase of Christds lawd dear, They been accorded so as ye may hear : How
that the Soudan ...
8
The Church Historians of England: pt.I. The life and defence ...
1 Where- Edwin upon the king, conferring with his council and his nobles, was
bap- baptized tized of Paulinus at York,2 with many of his other subjects with him
; insomuch that Coifi,3 the chief of the prelates of his old maumetry, armed
himself ...
9
Verba Nominalia: Or, Words Derived from Proper Names
... the burial-place of himself and the royal family, and accordingly ordering by his
will that no person should be interred there.” Dart. Antiq. Westm. Abbey, vol. I. p.
32. See also Holland, Plinie, b.xxxvi. c. 5. - » - ' - MAWMETRY or MAUMETRY.
Richard Stephen Charnock, 1866
10
The Riches of Chaucer ... By Charles Cowden Clarke ... ...
I say by treatise and ambassadry, And by the Popés mediation, And all the
church, and all the chivalry, That in destruction of Maumetry,l And in increase of
Christés lawé dear, They been accorded so as ye may hear : How that the
Soudan and ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden CLARKE, 1870
