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Mahoundn.adj.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Mahun. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French Mahun, Old French Mahum, Mahom, shortened form of Mahomet Mahomet n.; compare mammet n. From the 16th cent. onwards, the form with excrescent d (see D n.) became the predominant form except in Scots, where it appears to have had little currency. A. n.society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > founder c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 13636 Ure Drihten heo bi-læueð and to Mahune heo tuhteð. c1300 St. Vincent (Laud) 101 in C. Horstmann (1887) 187 Mahun, ȝware is þi miȝte? c1380 (1879) 4939 (MED) Þe ymage of Mahoun y-mad of golde Wiþ þe axe smot he oppon þe molde. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 7458 (MED) I suld him sla, bi sir mahun [a1400 Fairf. seint Mahoun]. c1450 (a1375) (Calig.) (1979) 1092 Þe Sarsyns cryde all yn fere To hare god Mahone, To helpe her geaunt in þat fyȝt. a1500 (a1460) (1897–1973) 251 (MED) Now by mahownes bloode! Ther will no mete do me goode To he be hanged. a1547 J. Redford (1848) 11 By Mahowndes bones,..by Mahowndes nose. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto xvi. liv. 125 By Macon and Lanfusa he doth sweare. 1596 E. Spenser vi. vii. sig. Ff2 The Carle did fret, And fume..And oftentimes by Turmagant and Mahound swore. View more context for this quotation 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso xii. x. 215 Praised (quoth he) be Macon, whom we serue. 1605 sig. I1 And Mahound and Termagant come against vs, weele fight with them. 1733 A. Pope 14 The Presence seems, with things so richly odd, The Mosque of Mahound, or some queer Pa-god. 1825 W. Scott Talisman iii, in III. 79 Down with Mahound, Termagaunt, and all their adherents. 1849 G. P. R. James I. iv. 77 The very approach of a follower of Mahound, however, was an abomination to the good nun. 1921 J. Buchan iv. 74 They hated the children of Mahound worse than the children of Christ. the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 230 Heo nom þene mahum [c1300 Otho mahun]..þe Eneas..brohte from Troie. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 8079 Þer stoden in þere temple ten þusend monnen..biforen heore mahun. c1429 (1986) l. 1568 A grete dragon Wham alle that landes folk held god and thare Mahon. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 17224 Avarice. Ley doun thy skryppe and thy bordoun And do homage to my Mahown! c1540 (?a1400) 4312 The false goddes in fere fell to þe ground; Bothe Mawhownus & maumettes myrtild in peces. the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 82 I wisshed..Þat disshes a[nd] dobleres..Were moltoun led in his maw and Mahoun amyddes! a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 149 Me thocht amangis the feyndis fell Mahoun gart cry ane dance. a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 153 Nixt that a turnament wes tryid, That lang befoir in hell wes cryid In presens of Mahoun. 1578 N. Baxter tr. J. Calvin Ep. Ded. 3 In the pestilent pollicies of that Mahound Matchiavile. 1792 R. Burns (1968) II. 655 The deil cam fiddlin thro' the town, And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman; And ilka wife cries, auld Mahoun, I wish you luck o' the prize, man. a1845 T. Hood 62 It is Mahound, the Evil One, and he has gain'd my soul! 1911 G. B. Shaw Shewing-up Blanco Posnet Pref. in 333 The Turkish Ambassador does not now protest against the publication of..the older books in which he [sc. Mahomet] is reviled as Mahound and classed with the devil himself. 1922 J. Joyce ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 369 And there were vessels that are wrought by magic of Mahound out of seasand and the air by a warlock with his breath that he blares into them like to bubbles. the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > hideousness > hideous thing c1540 (?a1400) 7758 Ther met hym þis Mawhown [sc. a centaur] þat was o mysshap. 1598 J. Florio A machound, a bugbeare, a raw-head and bloodie bone. †B. adj. ( attributive). society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [adjective] society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [adjective] a1625 J. Fletcher (1640) iv. 52 My pagan cozen My mighty Mahound kinsman, what quirk now. a1625 J. Fletcher (1640) v. 65 Who's this? my Mauhound cozen? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1275 |