10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAWMETRY»
Discover the use of
mawmetry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mawmetry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Psalter: Or Psalms of David and Certain Canticles
C Auerice is seruyce of mawmetry. and ilk* man makis that his mawmet that he
mast lufis. as sum has syluyr* his mawmet. sum fayr* hors. sum town or kastell. su
»i vanyte of atyr*J. Mawmetry is when any man gifis the luf til any creatwre that ...
Henry Ramsden Bramley,
1884
2
Middle English Dictionary
To do mawmentry: ydolatrare. al500(cl340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64) 96.8: Ill
aungels will be loutid; goed aungels loutys and will noght be loutid. . all
mawmetry aghe to cese in men. al500 Me- thodius(3) 489: Ysmaellys sonys. .In
mamentry was ...
Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis,
1975
3
Early English Text Society: Extra series
Then-for Cryst was borne 20 forto destrye suche mawmetry--whan pat Herode
pursewed hym, and wold haue slayne hym, his modyr bare hym ynto pe 10nd of
Egypt. And when he come pedyr, anon all pe mawmetys pat тегов yu pe loud,
pay ...
4
Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies
Then — for Cryst was borne 20 forto destrye suche mawmetry — whan J>at
Herode pursewed hym, and wold haue slayne hym, his modyr bare hym yuto ]>e
lond of Egypt. And when he come bedyr, anon all J>e mawmetys J>at weron yn ]
>e ...
John Mirk, Theodor Erbe,
1905
5
A Middle English Reader: Edited with Grammatical ...
Mahomet; mahomet, then idol, 141, 27; maw- met, 192, 4. maumetry, mawmetry,
sb., based on maumet; idolatry, 135, 9 ; maw- metryse, 145, 12. mawgrê, see
maugrê, prep. mawgrê, sb., OF. maugrê ; ill-will, displeasure, evil, 159, 2.
mawmet, ...
Oliver Farrar Emerson,
1915
6
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
7
Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
It is a corruption of Mahomet ; and mawmet, in contempt of that person, was first
an idol, (then a puppet,) as mawmetry was the worship of idols. This word was
also written mawme?it, and is still found in this form in the north of England.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Alsoin forms mammetry, mawmetry n.Yks.2 [mo'matrL] Idolatry, image-worship;
mummery. See Mommet. n.lt'lrs.2 w.Som.' They there pa'sons wi' their can'ls and
crosses and bowin and scrapin, I calls it riglar mommetry. [All mawmetry aghe to
...
9
Studies in Church History
One of the objects of Lollard and Wycliffite attack was the veneration of images,
which may be found designated by the term mawmetry in works attributed to
Wyclif himself, or more generally ascribed to Wycliffites and Lollards.73 From the
late ...
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Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. ...
All of them rich in gold and fruits and stones , but miserable _in their Mawmetry
and superfiitionz most os them so ingulpht in the abisse ofpaganismeghat they
dare adore Cat, Put, Dog, Divell, or what can be moulded after the representation
of ...