mensurn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛnsʊə/,

/ˈmɛnsəː/, U.S.

/ˈmɛnsʊ(ə)r/

Inflections: Plural mensuren.

Forms: 1600s mensure, 1800s– mensur, 1900s mensor (irregular). Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Mensur.

Etymology: < German Mensur (15th cent. in Middle High German as mensūr denoting a measure in music; 1600 in sense 1, 1822 in sense 2) < classical Latin mēnsūra measure n.

†1. The distance between two duellers; the duelling space between two marked lines; (also) either of these lines. Obsolete (rare before 19th cent.).

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1639 G. A. Pallas Armata ii. ii. ii. 6 Mensure is the distance betwixt thee and thine adversary.

1830 New Monthly Mag. 28 428 I have heard my friend S— say ‘that it is very pleasant when you come up to the scratch—that is to the Mensur, to see Dr. Pauli standing beside a basin of water, and a case of instruments, threading his silver needle to patch your cheek’.

1836 J. Strang Germany in 1831 II. xviii. 64 The seconds..proceed to chalk out the mensur, or measure, as it is called; while the champions..don themselves in the peculiar trowsers, scarfs, and badges [etc.].

1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 8 63 They soon stripped themselves to their shirts, and with no other guard or defence but a silk handkerchief' round the right hand, and the handle of the sabre twisted about with another, stepped into the mensur.

1848 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 259/2 The duellists are now on the ‘mensur’, the pistols being loaded under the eye of the umpire.

2. In Germany and Austria: a fencing duel between students, fought usually with partially blunted weapons.

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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel

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1848 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 251/2 An honor which was rarely conferred..upon those who had not undergone the ordeal of the mensur.

1868 Putnam's Mag. Oct. 502/2 During my first semester in G—, in the winter of 1861–1862, a Mensur or duelling reunion came off nearly every day.

1895 E. D. Perry tr. F. Paulsen Ger. Univ. v. 197 The Mensur is not strictly a duel, but rather a fencing-match between representatives of different Corps or Burschenschaften.

1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel xiii. 285 The chief work of these student companies is to fight among themselves, or with some rival Korps or Schaft, the celebrated German Mensur.

1911 L. Knowles Day with Korps-Students in Germany (ed. 2) 6 My visit was not to admire Heidelberg, but to see my Korps-student friends,..for on the morrow there was to be a Mensur, or fighting-bout.

1970 ‘M. Hebden’ Mask of Violence (1971) xxv. 219 Anarchical young men of..the older universities, with the Schmisse—the duelling scars—on their cheeks, were already shouting the old Mensur wish before the commencement of a fight: ‘Waffenschein!’

1989 Sunday Times Mag. 23 July 25/1 The existence of associations with broadly similar Mensur practices..is nowadays confined to the Federal Republic itself, Austria and Switzerland.

2009 S. Klimczuk & G. Warner Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries xii. 230 Each corps member is obliged to fight a mensur a minimum number of times... He has proved himself and is a corps member for life.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mensur
释义	mensurn. Brit. /ˈmɛnsʊə/, /ˈmɛnsəː/, U.S. /ˈmɛnsʊ(ə)r/ Inflections: Plural mensuren. Forms: 1600s mensure, 1800s– mensur, 1900s mensor (irregular). Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Mensur. Etymology: < German Mensur (15th cent. in Middle High German as mensūr denoting a measure in music; 1600 in sense 1, 1822 in sense 2) < classical Latin mēnsūra measure n. †1. The distance between two duellers; the duelling space between two marked lines; (also) either of these lines. Obsolete (rare before 19th cent.). ΚΠ 1639 G. A. Pallas Armata ii. ii. ii. 6 Mensure is the distance betwixt thee and thine adversary. 1830 New Monthly Mag. 28 428 I have heard my friend S— say ‘that it is very pleasant when you come up to the scratch—that is to the Mensur, to see Dr. Pauli standing beside a basin of water, and a case of instruments, threading his silver needle to patch your cheek’. 1836 J. Strang Germany in 1831 II. xviii. 64 The seconds..proceed to chalk out the mensur, or measure, as it is called; while the champions..don themselves in the peculiar trowsers, scarfs, and badges [etc.]. 1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 8 63 They soon stripped themselves to their shirts, and with no other guard or defence but a silk handkerchief' round the right hand, and the handle of the sabre twisted about with another, stepped into the mensur. 1848 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 259/2 The duellists are now on the ‘mensur’, the pistols being loaded under the eye of the umpire. 2. In Germany and Austria: a fencing duel between students, fought usually with partially blunted weapons. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 1848 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 251/2 An honor which was rarely conferred..upon those who had not undergone the ordeal of the mensur. 1868 Putnam's Mag. Oct. 502/2 During my first semester in G—, in the winter of 1861–1862, a Mensur or duelling reunion came off nearly every day. 1895 E. D. Perry tr. F. Paulsen Ger. Univ. v. 197 The Mensur is not strictly a duel, but rather a fencing-match between representatives of different Corps or Burschenschaften. 1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel xiii. 285 The chief work of these student companies is to fight among themselves, or with some rival Korps or Schaft, the celebrated German Mensur. 1911 L. Knowles Day with Korps-Students in Germany (ed. 2) 6 My visit was not to admire Heidelberg, but to see my Korps-student friends,..for on the morrow there was to be a Mensur, or fighting-bout. 1970 ‘M. Hebden’ Mask of Violence (1971) xxv. 219 Anarchical young men of..the older universities, with the Schmisse—the duelling scars—on their cheeks, were already shouting the old Mensur wish before the commencement of a fight: ‘Waffenschein!’ 1989 Sunday Times Mag. 23 July 25/1 The existence of associations with broadly similar Mensur practices..is nowadays confined to the Federal Republic itself, Austria and Switzerland. 2009 S. Klimczuk & G. Warner Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries xii. 230 Each corps member is obliged to fight a mensur a minimum number of times... He has proved himself and is a corps member for life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1639
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