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goliard Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈgəʊlɪɑːd| In 5 goliarde. [a. OF. goliard, -art, -ar glutton, f. gole (F. gueule):—L. gula gluttony. In 12–13th c. the goliards were supposed to take their name from a certain Golias, dignified with the titles of episcopus and archipoeta, in whose name some of the poems are written. Giraldus (Spec. Eccl.) app. regarded him as a real person. See Wright, Poems W. Mapes (Camden Soc. 1841) Introd. p. x, and his Hist. Caricature 163.] One of the class of educated jesters, buffoons, and authors of loose or satirical Latin verse, who flourished chiefly in the 12th and 13th c. in Germany, France, and England.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 35 b/2 They goon every day as goliardes in habyte shynyng and ryall apparayll. 1865Wright Hist. Caricature x. 163 But above all he was the father of the Goliards, the ‘ribald clerks’, as they are called. Hence goliardic a. [-ic], of or pertaining to the (poetry of the) goliards; goliardy (in 4 gulyardy) [-y3], also goliardery, the practices of a goliard; the composition of goliardic verse; † goliardous (in 4 gulardous) [? subst. use of OF. gouliardeus adj.] = goliard.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4704 A mynstralle, a gulardous, Come onys to a bysshopes hous. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 35 It es a foule lychery for to delyte þe in rymes and slyke gulyardy. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. iv. (1864) IX. 189 Goliardery was a recognised kind of mediaeval poetry. 1865Wright Hist. Caricature x. 163 In ecclesiastical statutes, published in the year 1289,..a heavy penalty [is proclaimed] against those clerici ‘who persist in the practice of goliardy’ [etc.]. Ibid. 165 At a later date the goliardic poetry was almost all ascribed to..Walter Mapes. 1884Symonds in Biog. (1895) II. 230 It seems ridiculous to translate loose Goliardic verses at this time. |