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mummery|ˈmʌmərɪ|
Forms: 6 mummary(e, mumry, momerie, -y, mommerye, 6–7 mummerie, 6–8 mommery, 6– mummery.
[a. OF. mommerie, F. momerie (= Sp. momeria, early mod.Du. mommerije Kilian, G. mummerei), f. momeur mummer n.: see -y.]
1. A performance of mummers. † in mummery, in fancy dress.
1530Palsgr. 246/1 Mommery, mommerie. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 975/1 This good man playeth as though he came in in a mummary, for any one worde he saith. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 358 Their holy One of Rome..burnt that most Reuerend Father D. Cranmer at Rome in a mummery. 1592[Kyd] Sol. & Pers. ii. i. 191 Prouide me foure Visards, foure Gownes, a boxe, and a Drumme; for I intend to go in mummery. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxiii. 86 Divers mummeries of several inventions were represented. 1719Fenton Prol. to Southerne's Spartan Dame 18 Your Fathers..Disdain'd the Mummery of Foreign Strollers. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 130 note, Masquings or mummeries were favourite sports at Christmas in old times.
2. transf. Ridiculous ceremonial or ‘play-acting’; an instance of this. Often applied to religious ritual regarded as silly or hypocritical.
1549Allen Jude's Par. Rev. x. 1–4 Pompous byshops and monkyshe mumry. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 243 She's invisible under the lock and key of the Prelates.., they onely are..the go-betweens of this trim devis'd mummery. 1663Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose, Agric. (1669) 101 The Heathen Religion, which consisted all in Mommery and Madness. 1749Fielding Tom Jones viii. i, Elves and fairies, and other such mummery. 1773Brydone Sicily xx. (1809) 206 There is so much nonsense and mummery in their worship, that they are afraid lest strangers should believe they are serious. 1828Macaulay Ess., Hallam (1897) 60 From this compromise the Church of England sprang... Her worship is not disfigured by mummery. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. I. 14 What miserable mummery are private theatricals! 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 278 Those rags of Popish mummeries which Elizabeth permitted to hang round the Reformation in England. |