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▪ I. † ˈbismer, n. Obs. Also 1 bysmer, -mor, bismor, 3–4 bisemar, busemare, 3–5 bis-, bysmar(e, 4 bissemare, busmar, 4–6 bismere, 6 (Sc.) bysmeyr, bismeir. [West Germanic: OE. bísmer, -or (str. neut.), identical with OHG. bísmer ‘ridicule,’ f. bí, by (in its strong or accented form) + -smer, which Schmeller connects with MHG. smier a smile, laughing, smieren to smile. Others have compared OHG. smero, OE. smeoru, OTeut. *smerwo-(m, ‘fat, grease, butter,’ which seems, on phonetic as well as other grounds, less probable.] 1. Shame, disgrace; reproach, mockery; scorn.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iii. vii. §1 Seo stow [Caudine Forks] ᵹewearþ swiþe mære..for Romana bismere. c1175Lamb. Hom. 91 Þa seiden þa iudeiscen men a bismer, Þas men beoð mid miste fordrencte. a1225Ancr. R. 132 He lauhweð hire to bisemare. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 653 Þenne þe burde byhynde þe dor for busmar laȝed. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 45 As ful of hokir, and of bissemare. c1460Launfal 923 Thy barouns dryveth the to bysmare. 2. A reproach, taunt, insult.
971Blickl. Hom. 23 He..æt þæm unlædum Iudeum maniᵹ bysmor ᵹeþrowade. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxii. 294 Bold of abydyng · busemares to suffren. 3. A person worthy of scorn; a lewd person, a pander or bawd. Cf. besom2.
a1300Cursor M. 22029 Anticrist..sal be born..of bismer brem and bald. a1400Cov. Myst. (1841) 140 Se this bolde bysmare wolde presume, Ageyn God to preve his myght. 1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 191. Ibid. viii. Prol. 72 Get ane bysmeyr ane barn, than all hir blys gane is. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 4234 That bismair, war scho thair, withoutin dowt Out of hell the Devill scho wald ding out. ▪ II. † ˈbismer, v. Obs. Forms: 1 bysmerian, bysm-, bismrian, bismærian, bysmorian, bysmriᵹan, 2 bysmerian, 4 bismere. [OE. bysmerian, f. prec.] trans. To treat with scorn, mock, deride, insult.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark iii. 29 Se þe ðone halᵹan gast bysmerað [Hatton bysmerieð]. c1160Hatton G. Matt. xxvii. 41 Eac þare sacerde ealdres hyme bysmeredon. 1340Ayenb. 22 [Þe proude] bisemereþ and scorneþ þe guode men. |