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purlicue, n. Sc. Now rare.|ˈpɜːlɪkjuː|
Also parlicue, -lecue, -leycue, perlecue, -leque, -likew, pirlicue, -liecue, -liquey, purleycue.
[Origin and etymological form unascertained. See Note below.]
1. ‘A dash or flourish at the end of a word in writing; a school-term, Aberd.’ (Jamieson 1808.)
b. pl. ‘Whims, particularities of conduct, trifling oddities, Angus.’ (Jam. 1808.)
2. ‘The peroration, or conclusion of a discourse; also used to denote the discourse itself, Strathmore, Roxb.’ (Jam. 1825.)
3. See quot. 1825. (The practice is now obsolete.)
1825Jamieson, Purlicue, Pirlicue, Parlicue... The recapitulation made by the pastor of a congregation, of the heads of the discourses, which have been delivered by his assistants, on the Saturday preceding the dispensation of the sacrament of the Supper. Scot. Orient. pron[ounced] Pirlicue. Also, the exhortations which were wont to be given by him, on Monday, at what was called ‘the close of the work’, were thus denominated in other parts of S[cotland]. (I have been informed that the term has been sometimes extended to all the services on Monday.) 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxiv, If you distaste the sermon, I doubt the pirliecue will please you as little. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxxvi, She would ware her life upon teaching them how to worship God properly, for that they were an ignorant wicked pack! A pirlicue which pleased them but little.
4. ‘The space enclosed by the extended forefinger and thumb’ (E.D.D.).
1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v., ‘A spang and a purlicue’ is a measure allowed in a certain game at marbles.
Hence ˈpurlicue v. trans. and intr. (In the Presbyterian Churches): to give a résumé of the preceding sermons at the close of a sacrament season.
1825Jamieson, To Purlicue, Pirlicue, Parlicue. 1860J. Wilson Presbytery of Perth 53 He kept up to the last the now all but obsolete custom of pirliecuing;..going up to the pulpit at the close of the service, and giving his people an abstract of the sermons preached by his assistants on Communion occasions, with any remarks thereon which he thought necessary. 1876W. M. Taylor Ministry of Word 177 They have been content to ‘say away’ on the passage, or, to use an expressive, Scotch word, they have ‘perlikewed’ awhile. 1867[Jas. Hunter] Remin. Quinquagenarian (Annandale), At the close it was the custom of our minister to parleycue the addresses of the clergymen who had preceded him. 1896H. M. B. Reid Cameronian Apostle vi. 96 note, Dugald Williamson..was in his time reckoned the best purleycueing member of the Presbytery.
[Note. It is generally assumed that the last part of this curious word is cue or F. queue a tail; the first part has been conjecturally referred to F. parler ‘to speak’, par la ‘by the’, and pour la ‘for the’, each being supposed to yield a plausible sense. The word is not known before Jamieson; and it is noteworthy that in his Dictionary of 1808, he recognized only senses 1 and 1 b; although a Scottish clergyman, sense 3 was app. unknown to him both then and when he prepared his 8vo. ed. of 1818, and was added only in the Supplement of 1825.] |