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‖ sistrum|ˈsɪstrəm|
Pl. sistra (sistrums). Also 8 systrum.
[L., ad. Gr. σείστρον, f. σείειν to shake.]
A musical instrument consisting of a thin oval metal frame furnished with transverse metal rods loosely fixed in it and a handle by which it was shaken. Also attrib.
Originally peculiar to Egypt and the worship of Isis, but subsequently used in other Oriental countries.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxliii. (1495) 946 It is prouyd that Isis quene of Egypte was the fyrste fynder of Sistrum. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1312 That brasen Timbrel which they sounded and rung at the sacrifices of Isis, named Sistrum. Ibid., Upon the Absis or rundle of the Sistrum toward the toppe, they engrave the forme of a cat. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts xiii. (1683) 201 A Draught of all sorts of Sistrums, Crotaloes, Cymbals, Tympans, &c. in use among the Ancients. 1698M. Lister Journ. Paris (1699) 111 A Sistrum or ægyptian Rattle with three loose and running Wires cross it. 1702Addison Dial. Medals ii. Wks. 1766 III. 119 The instrument in her hand is the Sistrum of the ægyptians. 1792A. Young Trav. France 132 Mademoiselle Le Blanc singing to her systrum. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 63/2 Some writers have confounded the sistrum with the cymbals. 1883H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 206 She held stretched out towards them a sistrum in either hand. |