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† zizany Obs.
Forms: 4 zizanny, -ije, 5 zizannie, 6 zizanie, 6–8 zizany; also (in Gr.-L. form) 4–6 zizania, 7 pl. zizaniaes.
[a. OF. zizanie, ad. late L. zizania n. pl., a. Gr. ζιζάνια, pl. of ζιζάνιον.]
1. An injurious weed among corn; also fig.; = tare n.1 3, b.
a1300Cursor M. 1138 Þi wete sal bi-com zizanny [Gött. zizannije, Fairf. darnel]. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 100 Recipe semen iusquiamus, zizannie, i. darnel. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 915 Zizany, droe. 1581J. Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 74 To desaue the varld to sau zizanie and pernicious heresie in mennis hartis. a1706Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 314 Many holy and excellent persons God has dispersed, as wheat among the tares and zizany.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxciv. (1495) Xiv/1 Ray hyghte Zizania and is a certen herbe..lyke to whete whanne it is grasse.] 1562Turner Herbal ii. 41 There is great lyknes betwene whete and zizaniam, which we call lolium. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 829/2 The doctrine of the Bohemians, whiche he termeth by the name of Zizania. 1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 8 With their Zizaniaes of faction, they make boot & havocke of Catholickes estates.
2. = zizania. rare.
1759B. Stillingfleet tr. Gedner's Use Cur. in Misc. Tracts (1762) 184 A great number of plants fit for food might be sown, such as zizany of Canada. |