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mar-, vb. stem
a. prefixed to ns., forming ns. (chiefly 17th cent. nonce-wds.), with sense ‘one who or something which mars’, and adjs., with sense ‘that mars’; as mar-all n. and adj., mar-feast (arch.), mar-good, mar-hawk, mar-joy; mar-right adj.; † mar-tail, a derisive term for a prostitute. Also marplot.
1611Florio, Ser sparecchia, a *mar-all, a spoile-all, a busie-headed fellow. a1625Fletcher Chances i. i, And what now Meane they to study, Anthony, Morall Philosophy, After their mar-all women?
1821Scott Kenilw. i, I will drink a round..rather than be termed a *mar-feast. 1887W. Morris tr. Homer's Odyssey XVII. 446 What God this plague, this mar-feast, hath hither sent to us? 1922Joyce Ulysses 710 Superannuated bailiff's man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, [etc.].
1647Trapp Comm. Rev. iii. 2 Hypocrisie, that pernicious *mar⁓good.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 142 Such a man..shall seldome prove a perfecte falconer but a *marrehawke.
a1628F. Grevil Alaham iv. i, He hath no good: you have no ill but he: This *Marre-right yielding's honors Tyranny.
c1620Fletcher Chances iv. ii, Well, my sweet mistress, well, good madam *martaile!
b. esp. in mar-prelate, first used in the pseudonym ‘Martin Marprelate’, adopted by the writer or writers of certain tracts issued in 1588–9, which gave rise to a fierce controversy; hence attrib., as marprelate controversy, mar-prelate tracts; also marprelate v., to inveigh in the style of ‘Marprelate’; marprelatist, attrib. belonging to the Marprelate party. Also in many nonce-words occurring in the Marprelate tracts or in later works referring to them.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 20 You are called Elmar, but you may be better called marelme..hauing cut them all downe. 1589Mar Martine 6 Hee might have cald himselfe Mar-preest. 1589Hay any Work (1844) 32 As for Mar-church, and Mar-religion, they haue [etc.]. Ibid. 44 You Mar-prince, Mar-law, Mar-magestrate. 1636H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 270 Those tongues which..Mar-Prelated..of old against the Ecclesiasticke Hierarchy. 1862R. Vaughan Nonconformity 56 The notorious Marprelate tracts. 1879Sat. Rev. 6 Sept. 298 The series of marprelatist characterizations of the contemporary Anglican episcopate. |