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单词 minstrelsy
释义

minstrelsyn.

Brit. /ˈmɪnstr(ə)lsi/, U.S. /ˈmɪnstr(ə)lsi/
Forms:

α. Middle English menestralcie, Middle English menestrausie, Middle English menestrelsy, Middle English menistralsi, Middle English menistralsy.

β. Middle English menstalcy (transmission error), Middle English menstraci, Middle English menstracie, Middle English menstracy, Middle English menstracye, Middle English menstralcie, Middle English menstralcy, Middle English menstralcye, Middle English menstralse, Middle English menstralsie, Middle English menstrasie, Middle English menstrasye, Middle English menstrelsye, Middle English–1500s menstralsye; Scottish pre-1700 menstrailssy, pre-1700 menstralcy, pre-1700 menstralsy, pre-1700 menstrasy.

γ. Middle English minestrancie (transmission error), Middle English mynystralcye, Middle English mynystralsye; Scottish pre-1700 mynystralsy.

δ. Middle English minstracie, Middle English minstralcie, Middle English minstralcy, Middle English minstralcye, Middle English minstralsye, Middle English minstrasye, Middle English mistralsy (transmission error), Middle English munstralcie, Middle English munstralsy, Middle English munstralsye, Middle English munstrassye, Middle English mylstralsi (transmission error), Middle English mylstralsy (transmission error), Middle English mynstralcie, Middle English mynstralcye, Middle English mynstrallcy, Middle English mynstralsi, Middle English mynstralsie, Middle English mynstralsyȝe, Middle English mynstrasie, Middle English mynstrasy, Middle English mynstrasye, Middle English mynstrecye, Middle English mynstrelce, Middle English mynstrelcie, Middle English mynstrelcy, Middle English mynstrelcye, Middle English mynstrellcy, Middle English mynstrellese, Middle English mynstrelse, Middle English mynstrelsee, Middle English mynstrisye, Middle English mynstrylsy, Middle English–1500s mynstracy, Middle English–1500s mynstralcy, Middle English–1500s mynstralsy, Middle English–1500s mynstralsye, Middle English–1500s mynstrelsy, Middle English–1500s 1700s minstralsy, 1500s minstrelcy, 1500s minstrelsye, 1500s–1600s minstralsie, 1600s minstrelsie, 1600s– minstrelsy; Scottish pre-1700 mynstrailcy.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French menestralsie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman menestralsie, menestralcie, menestraucie, menestracie, minestracie, ministralcie, mynstraucie, munestrasie minstrel's art (second half of the 12th cent.), musical instrument (13th cent.), minstrel's song (14th cent.) < menestral minstrel n. + -sie -cy suffix. Compare post-classical Latin menestralcia , ministralcia (14th cent. in British sources). Compare poesy n.
1.
a. The art or occupation of a minstrel; the practice of singing and playing music; musical entertainment. Now archaic and historical (cf. sense 1d).to make minstrelsy: to produce music (obsolete).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)]
dreamOE
to make melodyc1330
to make minstrelsyc1330
note1340
practise?a1425
gest1508
melody1596
music1649
melodize1662
perform1724
spiel1870
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > minstrelsy > [noun]
glee-crafta900
minstrelsyc1330
jugglerya1400
minstrelly?c1450
minstrelship1471
jonglery1616
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > minstrelsy
glee-crafta900
minstrelsyc1330
jugglerya1400
minstrelly?c1450
minstrelship1471
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 394 (MED) Þer was mirþe & melody And al maner menstracie, As ȝe may forþeward here.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1155 Alle maner menstracie þere was mad.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 4716 He hadde no grace to sey with-alle His graces ryght deuoutely For þe noyse of þe mynstralsy.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iii. 11 Þer was merþe & Munstralsye, mede to plese.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvi. 196 What manere mynstralcie..Hast þow vsed?
a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 3689 (MED) Þan was þare made grete menestrelsy.
a1500 (?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) 168 (MED) Þer bryght brydyls range Makeyng swete mynstralcy.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xl. 20 Wyne and mynstralsye reioyse the hert.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. ii. 11 He did chaunt his rurall minstralsie.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 24 To have our Passions lye at the Mercy of a little Minstrelsy.
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xviii. 10 Save one short pipe of rudest minstrelsy.
1815 S. T. Coleridge Faith, Hope, & Charity in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) 427 Let those whose low delights to Earth are given Chaunt forth their earthly Loves! but we Must make an holier minstrelsy.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. 104 The minstrelsy of psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxv. 398 Brown's gabbling prayers, the cries of the sailors in the rigging, strains of the dead Hemstead's minstrelsy, ran together in Carthew's mind.
1922 A. Brazil Monitress Merle xiv. 201 She had not expected to receive back a poetical effusion from her small knight. He evidently, however, had some slight gift for minstrelsy.
1992 K. Reichl in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 183 Tail-rhyme stanza, the metrical form most clearly connected to minstrelsy and popular story-telling.
b. Harmony, accord. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > agreement of sounds or harmony
cordc1300
accordmentc1330
concorda1340
accorda1387
consonancya1387
accordancea1400
cordinga1400
symphonyc1440
proportiona1450
chord?c1475
uthec1478
attemperance1481
consonant1483
monochordc1500
concordancea1513
concent1538
consort1587
harmoge1601
minstrelsy1605
dissonancy1626
harmoniousness1679
harmonicalness1693
concentus1769
attune1850
1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 18 Which delighted in nothing more then in this minstrelsie of meeters.
c. poetic and literary. In extended use, applied to birdsong, the humming of insects, etc.
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1798 S. T. Coleridge Dungeon in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 140 He can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing, Amid this general dance and minstrelsy.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 317 Lulled by the minstrelsy of gnats and mosquitoes.
1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 799/2 Oh, for music like the bee! Oh, for wild-wasp minstrelsy!
1992 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 134 The poet celebrates (with some irony) the humble and momentary minstrelsy of familiar birds.
d. Originally U.S. The songs, entertainment, etc., performed by blackface minstrels (see minstrel n. 3a). Now chiefly historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun]
songeOE
wisea1000
chant1587
voice-music1600
charm1633
vocal1769
minstrelsy1863
1863 Harper's Mag. Mar. 563/1 The bones and banjo are apparently as attractive as ever, under the name of Minstrelsy.
1930 C. Wittke Tambo & Bones 42 Minstrelsy was born in a decade when the fashionable American public had not yet become addicted to the theatre-going habit.
1986 G. Bordman Amer. Musical Theatre (ed. 2) i. 11 Blackface artists such as Rice were precursors of minstrelsy.
2. A group or gathering of minstrels; musicians or singers collectively. Obsolete (archaic and rare in later use).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > minstrel > collectively
minstrelsyc1330
ultramontane1875
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > minstrelsy > [noun] > minstrel > group of
minstrelsyc1330
ultramontane1875
c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 104 (MED) Þer was mirþe & melodye & al maner of menstracie, Her craftes for to kiþe.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 5011 (MED) So many maner minstracie at þat mariage were.
c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 268 Bifore hym gooth the loude mynstralcye.
c1450 (?c1300) Northern Passion (BL Add.) 158 (MED) Bellis did he Many to rynge and oþir Mynstralsye for to synge.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxli. 267 Euery man in good aray and euery crafte with his mynstralsye.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 276 Oþer worthi lady ȝede to þe same chirch, with gret mynstracy afore hire.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 168 Ministring Spirits, traind up in Feast and Song; Such hast thou arm'd, the Minstrelsie of Heav'n. View more context for this quotation
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 231 Before him march in Files The rural Minstralsy.
1800–24 T. Campbell Lines on Camp Hill iii At the Conqueror's side There his minstrelsy sat harp in hand.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. iv. 119 The minstrelsy played before them till they reached the royal residence.
3. A musical instrument; musical instruments collectively. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > collectively
musica1382
minstrelsyc1390
set1561
orchestra1770
musical1809
family1842
instrumentarium1893
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > others
coriunc1275
symphonyc1290
symphan1303
minstrelsyc1390
bougounc1400
clokarde?c1475
dulsacordisa1525
symphioun1578
sumphion?1590
clasher1621
orphion1658
polyphone1684
roundball1688
phonomime1834
orchestrion1838
sabbeka1844
bullroarer1848
creaker1855
melodikon1857
symphonia1864
organophone1880
magnetophone1883
Kaffir piano1897
jazzophone1926
mouth bow1932
wobbleboard1960
singing bowl1980
c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 113 Pleyen he koude on euery mynstralcye [v.r. menstrelsye].
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 6454 The voys of orgons & of dyuers menstralcy.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxcix. 443 The spanyerdes..departed, makyng great noyse of trumpettes and other mynstrelsies.
4. Minstrel poetry; a body or collection of such poetry. Later also: poetry or song in general, esp. folk poetry.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > poem to be sung > minstrel poetry
minstrelsy1802
1802 W. Scott (title) Minstrelsy of the Scottish border.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 222 It's a historical ballad,..a genuine and undoubted fragment of minstrelsy.
1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 39 The Iliad..is a compilation..arranged by successive editors, but still a compilation of minstrelsies, the works of various poets in the heroic age.
1845 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. V. 150 That remarkable body of national song known as the Jacobite minstrelsy.
1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 198 Vedas, Æsop's Fables..Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
1896 Littell's Living Age 1 Feb. 304/2 Borrow's copious body of translations from Scandinavian popular minstrelsies was not at all to be confounded with that of certain clever versifiers.
1915 W. Cather Song of Lark vi. x. 468 Taxicabs were still new in New York, and the theme of popular minstrelsy.
1927 F. H. Eckstorm & M. W. Smyth (title) Minstrelsy of Maine. Folk-songs and ballads of the woods and the coast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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