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† ˈGormogon Obs.
Also gormagon.
[Meaningless: pseudo Chinese.]
A member of a society imitating the Freemasons, founded early in the 18th c.
1725Two Letters in Grand Mystery of Freemasons (ed. 2) 13 The Venerable Order of Gormogons having been brought into England by a Chinese Mandarin. 1729H. Carey Poems (ed. 3) 206 The Masons and the Gormogons Are laughing at one another. 1731Daily Jrnl. 28 Oct. in N. & Q. Ser. iv. IV. 441/2 By command of the Volgi. A general Chapter of the..Ancient Order of Gor-mogon will be held [etc.]. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 576 One Rose a Gregorian, one a Gormogon. [Note.] A sort of Lay-brothers, Slips from the Root of the Free-Masons. 1747Gray Lett. Wks. 1884 II. 166, I reckon next week we shall hear you are a free-Mason, or a Gormogon at least. 1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. v. (1809) 87 The art of riding before a lady on a double horse, vulgarly termed à la gormagon. |