单词 | musery |
释义 | † museryn.1 Obsolete. rare. An amusement, a pastime. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun] playeOE gameeOE disportc1380 sportc1443 museryc1450 pastime?1473 gaud1587 playgame1596 exercise1622 amusement1632 evagation1638 retirement1641 divertisement1642 diversiona1684 ploya1689 lounge1788 divertissement1804 happening1959 letterboxing1977 timepass1982 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 102 Pleyinge..at dees, at merelles, and manye oothere museryes [Fr. muserie]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † museryn.2 Obsolete. Embellishment of the work of the Muses.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > Muse > work musery1869 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [noun] > the muses > work of musery1869 1869 G. Meredith Let. 19 Dec. (1970) I. 407 Why, this stuff [sc. Tennyson's Holy Grail] is not the Muse, it's Musery. The man has got hold of the Muses' clothes-line and hung it with jewelry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < |
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