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puppetry|ˈpʌpɪtrɪ|
Also 6 popatrye, popetry(e, -ie, 7 puppettry.
[f. puppet + -ry.]
1. Mimic action or representation as of puppets; masquerade, mummery; false semblance, make-believe; artificial or unreal action; spec. applied to idolatrous or superstitious observances (in 16th c. often in form popetry, with play on popery).
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man, Duty of Kings, 53 b, Let not oure most holy father make them no moare dronken with vayne names, with cappes of mayntenaunce, and like babels, as it were popetry for children. 1530― Answ. More Wks. (1573) 256/1 No dumme popetrie or superstitious Mahometrie, but signes of the testament of God. 1549Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 30 The Deuyl..his office is to hinder religion..to teach al kynde of popetrie. 1644Evelyn Diary 24–5 Dec., The pupetry in the Church of the Minerva [in Rome], representing the Nativity. 1794Coleridge Relig. Musings 233 Whoe'er Turn with mild sorrow from the victor's car And the low puppetry of thrones, to muse On that blest triumph. 1872Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 55 Preconcerted pathos and puppetry of passion done to order.
2. Puppet-play; debased dramatic action.
1613Chapman Rev. Bussy D'Ambois i. C j b, Nay, we must now haue nothing brought on Stages, But puppetry, and pide ridiculous Antickes. 1651Biggs New Disp. §252 The pageantries and puppetries of Bartholmew Faire. 1857[see puppet-player]. 1879Swinburne Stud. Shaks. iii. (1895) 182 Remove [Iago]..and we have but the eternal and vulgar figures of jealousy and innocence, newly vamped and veneered and padded and patched up for the stalest purposes of puppetry.
†3. ‘Get up’ or dress as of a puppet. Obs.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. viii. 216 Now doth the body led by senceless will..Raue, talke idely as 'twere some deity Adorning female painted puppetry. 1638Ford Lady's Trial ii. i, With this language, Bold man of arms, shalt win upon her, doubt not, Beyond all silken puppetry.
4. Something compared to a puppet or set of puppets.
†a. pl. False or pretended divinities. Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God iv. ii. 157 The true God did vouchsafe them [the Romans] that increase of their Empire, when their own puppettries [hii quos deos putant] never did them a penyworth of good.
b. An unreal or artificial character in literary fiction; a set of such characters.
1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Artif. Comedy Last Cent., What was it to you if that..half-reality the husband was over-reached by the puppetry—or the thin thing..was persuaded it was dying of a plethory? 1885G. Meredith Diana i, A great modern writer..groaned over his puppetry, that he dared not animate them..with the fires of positive brain-stuff. 1898Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 3/1 Fully furnished with the stage properties and puppetry of a Highland romance, but..singularly destitute of romantic atmosphere and colour. |