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▪ I. mention, n.|ˈmɛnʃən|
Forms: 4 mencyun, 4–5 -cioun(e, 4–6 -cione, -sion(e, 4–7 -cion, 5 -syon, -sioun, -cyoun(e, 5–6 -cyon, 6 -tyon, -tioun, -tione, 6– mention.
[a. F. mention (= Sp. mencion, Pg. menção, It. menzione), ad. L. mentiōn-em, mentio, f. the root men- of menti-, mens mind, meminisse to remember.]
†1. Bearing in mind, consideration. Obs.
c1300Gregorleg. (Vernon MS.) 749 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LV. 438 Alle þat herden þis storie rede wiþ herte and deuocioun, And in herte taken heede wiþ good Mencioun, þe pope haþ granted hem to mede and [v.rr. ane, an] hundred dawes to pardoun.
2. a. In early use, the action of commemorating or calling to mind by speech or writing. Now in more restricted sense, the action, or an act, of incidentally referring to, remarking upon, or introducing the name of (a person or thing) in spoken or written discourse. Orig. in phrase to make mention of (= Fr. faire mention de), which is now slightly arch. or literary, exc. in negative contexts.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 10496 Yn þat messe, þey hem affye,..For hyt makeþ mencyun of þe passyun As Iesu cryst to deþ was doun. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 448 Dauyd maketh mencioun he spake amonges kynges. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 2054 Wherfore I toke pen and ynke And paper to make therof mencion In wrytyng. 1459Sir J. Fastolf Will in Paston Lett. I. 454 With a scripture aboute the stoon makynge mencion the day and yeer of hise obite. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 757 Mencione off Bruce is oft in Wallace buk. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 76 He..maketh mencion and rehersall of diuerse the wandreynges of Ulysses. 1559Bp. Scot in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. vii. 15 Without any mencyon of their conversation and livinge. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 7 Doctor Powell..maketh mencion of an Ancient Author. c1665Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson 9, I have heard very honourable mention of him. a1716South Serm. (1727) V. i. 22 So that their Blood may rise, and their Heart may swell at the very mention of it. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. Introd. 8, I shall make honourable Mention of their Names in a short Preface. 1758Johnson Idler No. 47 ⁋11 He grows peevish at any mention of business. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 482 The mention of their names excites the disgust and horror of all sects and parties. 1868C. M. Yonge Cameos I. 268 He never heard from him one careless mention of the name of God. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 338 These two passages are the only ones in which Plato makes mention of himself. 1877Major Disc. Prince Henry xii. 190 The Camaldolese geographer makes no mention of the sources from which he derived his information. 1891T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer II. v. 236 It will explain the two mentions of Lollius in ‘Troilus and Cressida’.
b. Comb. in † mention making, mentioning.
1534More Treat. Passion Wks. 1292/1 These wordes..be the wordes of..three of the .iiii. euangelistes, which by the mencion makynge of the Pascha..geue vs here..occasyon to speake of the poynte whiche I before towched. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. i. 21 Without anye mention making of our mutual assurance. 1679Kid in Hickes Spir. Popery (1680) 5, I bless him,..that ever such a poor and obscure person as I am, should be thus priviledged by him for mentionmaking of his grace.
†c. in the mention of: ‘apropos of’. Obs.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 149 There is in the mention of Picture a pretie tale divulged of Lepidus, who [etc.].
†d. of no mention: not worthy of mention, undistinguished.
1622Fletcher & Massinger Prophetess v. iii, 'Tis true, I have been a Rascall, as you are, a fellow of no mention, nor no mark.
e. honourable mention (rarely, after Fr. use, simply mention): a distinction accorded to exhibited works of art, etc., or to candidates at an examination that are considered to possess exceptional merit, but are not entitled to a prize.
1892Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 248 ‘If I don't get my ‘mention’’, she would say passionately, ‘I tell you again it will be intrigue’.
f. Mil. A commendatory reference made to a person in an official military dispatch (abbrev. of mention in dispatches).
1915A. M. N. Lyons Kitchener Chaps 81 No, sir, there's no particular cop about these ‘mentions’; only something for your pals to read. 1921S. C. Johnson Medal Collector viii. 180 No more than one leaf, however, may be fixed to the ribbon even though the wearer may have been the subject of several mentions. 1958M. Dickens Man Overboard iii. 35 Other people came out of the war with Mentions and worthwhile gongs. 1964T. White tr. Leulliette's St. Michael 221 I've got the Médaille Militaire, the Croix de Guerre and seven mentions.
†3. In occasional uses: A statement, narrative; a record, memorial; a memorial inscription. Obs.
c1470Harding Chron. xcvii. iii, Of whiche came then..batayles greate and fell discencions, As Bede wryteth amonge his mencyons. 1470–85Malory Arthur ii. xii. 90 Kyng Arthur lete berye thys knyght rychely and made a mensyon on his tombe. Ibid. xi. i. 571 Whan this hermyte had made this mensyon he departed from the courte of kynge Arthur.
†4. Indication, evidence; a vestige, trace, remnant. Obs.
1567in Bateson Hist. Northumbld. (1893) I. 352 West⁓warde by an old mencon of a dyke. Ibid., Ye mencyon of an olde dike. a1600Hodgson MS. in Northumbld. Gloss. 475 The march..between England and Scotland..goeth by an old mension of a dycke called the Marche dyke. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa i. 31 The verie trees are so drowned and ouerwhelmed therein [in snow], that it is not possible to finde any mention of them. 1601Holland Pliny I. 110 The rest that Homer so much speaks of..there is no mention or token remaining of them. 1601R. Yarington Two Lament. Trag. E 2 b, Harke Rachel: I will..fling this middle mention of a man, Into some ditch... Rach. Where haue you laide the legs and battered head? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 532 It [the earthquake] brought vp the Sea a great way vpon the maine Land, which is carried backe with it into the Sea, not leauing mention that there had beene Land. Ibid. 814 Scarce any mention of the houses remained. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts O.T. 161 Where he moves in the sea he causeth a mention of his way in the waters.
▪ II. mention, v.|ˈmɛnʃən|
Also 6 mencyon, -cion, -sion, -sin.
[a. F. mentionner (= Sp. mencionar, It. menzionare, med.L. mentiōnāre), f. mention: see prec. n.]
1. a. trans. To make mention of; to refer to or remark upon incidentally; to specify by name or otherwise.
The parenthetical infinitive phrase not to mention (so-and-so) is used as a rhetorical suggestion that the speaker is refraining from presenting the full strength of his case; † not to mention it: used parenthetically for ‘not in any degree worth mention’; to be mentioned in dispatches: to receive a ‘mention’ (see mention n. 2 f); also transf.
1530Palsgr. 634/2, I mencyon, I make rehersall or remembraunce of a thyng paste or a person absent, je mencionne. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 32 Wherof Frith wrote thys warnyng to Tin[dale] whyche he here mencyoneth. 1552–3Inv. Ch. Goods, Staffs. in Ann. Lichfield IV. 55 Md. that ij ameses mensioned in the old inventorey be stolne. Ibid. 67 Md. that parcells followynge ar mensined in the olde inventore. 1611Bible 1 Chron. iv. 38 These mentioned by their names were Princes in their families. 1692Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 405 It rain'd and drisled most of the morning, having not rain'd, not to mention it, for a month. 1702Addison Dial. Medals Misc. Wks. 1736 III. 15 Not to mention several others, Carracio is said to have assisted Aretine. 1705― Italy Pref., I think I have mention'd but few Things..that are not set in a new Light. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1850 II. Pref. 5 Not to mention the multitudes who read merely for the sake of talking [etc.]. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 25 By Means too well known to require my mentioning them. 1839Blackie in For. Q. Rev. XXIII. 279 How the finest lines in Milton (not to mention Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge) have been smothered and mangled by this curious race of syllable counters, no student of English poetry requires to be told. 1849James Woodman v, Let us mention no names. 1858Conington Pope Misc. Writ. I. 18 It would be a great mistake to suppose that Pope's ‘Pastorals’ are worthy of being mentioned in the same day with any genuine work of Virgil's. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 130 The science of dialectic is nowhere mentioned by name in the Laws. 1915A. Huxley Let. June (1969) 73 Poor Bob Gibson is killed. He was as good a soldier as he was a don. He was mentioned in dispatches. 1922Joyce Ulysses 449, I fought with the colours..and was disabled at Spion Kop and Bloemfontein, was mentioned in dispatches. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1182/2 Mentioned in despatches. To have one's name appear in a newspaper, a parish magazine, or even on a notice board: jocular. 1975Times 27 Aug. 20/3 In proud and loving memory of Captain Jocelyn Fulke Dalrymple Radice, The Queen's Bays, mentioned in British and French Army dispatches,..who died of wounds on August 27, 1944.
b. With clause as obj.: To state incidentally.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 60 Give me leave to mention that there lies a City not farre distant. 1714Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. lxxxviii. 143, I am surprised you do not mention where you mean to stand. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 594 This case is also reported by Style, who mentions that Lord Ch. J. Roll said [etc.]. 1863G. Macdonald D. Elginbrod III. iii. ix. 158 He mentioned to Miss Talbot that he had been his guest that night. a1906Mod. It ought here to be mentioned that I had never met the man before. 1929C. K. Scott-Moncrieff tr. Proust's Cities of Plain I. ii. ii. 268, I mentioned to him that I had thought I heard him come upstairs.
c. don't mention it: a colloquial phrase used in deprecating offered thanks or apology.
1841Lytton Night & Morning I. ii. ii. 264 ‘I am going to leave your house, ma'am; and I wish to settle any little arrears of rent, &c.’ ‘Oh! sir! don't mention it,’ said the landlady. 1854W. Collins Hide & Seek III. iv. 84 ‘I was just going to swab up that part of the carpet when you came in’, said Zack, apologetically... ‘Oh don't mention it’, answered Valentine, laughing. ‘It was all my awkwardness’. 1873Howells Chance Acquaintance iv, Oh, don't mention that! I was the only one to blame.
†2. intr. To speak or make mention of. Also in indirect passive. Obs.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 102 In their letters they mentioned of the obedience unto Magistrates. Ibid. 176 b, In the last boke before this, I mentioned of this duke's invectives against the Duke of Saxon. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 199 A Pyramide mentioned of in Histories. 1609B. Jonson Masque of Queens B 4 b, Their little Masters or Martinets, of whom I haue mention'd before. 1667Milton P.L. x. 1041 No more be mention'd then of violence Against our selves. 1792Elvina I. 32, I mentioned in my last of the kind attention that Mr. Falkland had shewn. |