posyn.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊzi/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊzi/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s posye, late Middle English– posy, 1500s pozie, 1500s–1800s posey, 1500s– posie, 1600s po'sie; English regional 1800s pozy, 1800s– poises (plural; northern), 1800s– posey, 1900s– pwosy; Scottish pre-1700 pocy, pre-1700 1700s– posy, 1800s posie.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: poesy n.

Etymology: Originally a variant of poesy n., reflecting a disyllabic pronunciation. Now (except in regional use) distinguished in form in sense 2. Compare pose n.³

a. = poesy n. 3. Now archaic or historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [noun] > in verse

posya1450

poesyc1450

ballad1529

society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > motto or legend

reasona1387

wordc1390

posya1450

poesyc1450

pose?1450

legend?a1500

mot1575

motto1589

faburden1594

device1735

a1450 in Notes & Queries (1976) 221 294 (MED) Pur posy [c.1450 Sloane: Greene It wern fowre letterys of purposy, M and A, R and I, Tho wern letteris of Mary].

1533 Noble Coronacyon Quene Anne A v Wafers with rose leaues, and about the wafers were written with letters of gold, this posey.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clx All the stretes and waies, beyng hanged and spired with rich and costly carpets, and posies written in euery place.

a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) 31 Some haue their fansie so led as though money made men: let this be your Posie rather,..Manners makes man.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 148 Grati. A paltry ring..whose posie was..like Cutlers poetry... Ner. What talke you of the posie or the valew.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 86 The rest is dried Bricks, coloured ouer with Posies of Arabique and like worke.

1651 W. Cartwright Comedies, Tragi-comedies, & Poems 317 And what we now do hear blest spirits sing, Is but the happy Po'sie of that ring.

a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 3 Our Posies for Rings are either immodest or irreligious.

1711 Boston News-let. 1 Oct. 2/2 A Silver Box in the Fashion of an Heart, Grav'd on the Lid and Bottom, With Branches and Several Posies.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 532 I should as soon expect to see a Critique on the Posie of a Ring, as on the Inscription of a Medal.

1896 M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 53 Joan was reading the posy [in the ring]—‘But one for me, but one for thee, but one of thee and me’.

1980 E. Jong Fanny iii. xv. 470 She, too, wore a Mourning Ring—not a Hair one nor a Death's Head like those Mrs. Locke had worn—but one on which this Posie was engrav'd: ‘Prepar'd Be to Follow Me’.

2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. 18 Posies were very often written on wedding rings.

†b. An emblem or emblematic device. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > emblem or device

signc1300

devicea1375

remembrancea1470

posya1565

ensign1579

impresaa1586

imprese1588

brief1594

impressa1616

emblem1616

impressa1628

notado1647

impressa1656

blazoning1828

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 256/1 Poysy, devyse, or worde, deuise.]

a1565 T. Palmer Posies (Sloane 3794) f. 95 (heading) A table of all the pictures in this boke figured w^t y^e number of the poosee.

1582 R. Madox Reg. 29 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 281 Bequething..our selves to the protection of the Almyghtye and so according to the posey of our ship: Under the conduct of Christ wee forowed the seaze.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 139 In all tacit posies of His ascention this figure..is most emphatically significant.

a. A small bunch of flowers, frequently for holding in the hand or wearing as an ornament; a nosegay or small bouquet. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet

bobc1400

posya1500

poesy1565

bough-pot1585

ramilletec1620

bouquet1717

tisty-tosty1825

booky1842

bokay1847

shower bouquet1891

porte-bouquet1900

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 72 Thar was the garding with the flouris ourfret, Quich is in posy fore my lady set.

1573 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) at Admoveo Fasciculum ad nares admouebis, thou shalt put the posie to thy nose.

c1618 F. Moryson Itinerary (1903) iv. v. i. 437 They are confuted, who traduce the English tounge to be like a beggers patched Cloke, which they should rather compayre to a Posey of sweetest flowers.

1662 Duchess of Newcastle Several Wits iv. xxxvii, in Playes Written 114 My lips shall be as flowery banks, whereon sweet Rhethorick grows..; from which banks, love shall wish to gather Posies of kisses, where every single kisse shall differ as Roses, Pinks, Violets, Primroses, and Daffidillies.

1681 in J. R. Magrath Flemings in Oxf. (1913) II. 310 Before her corps was carryed out of y^e house, ye gentry had given each of them, Posys of Laurell & Rosemary.

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xi. 10 In a white Sarsnet Hood, and a Posie at her Bosome.

1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress xii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 252 Marj'ram sweet, in shepherd's posie found.

1810 W. Wordsworth Descr. Lakes in J. Wilkinson Select Views p. xix The little garden with..its borders and patches of flowers for Sunday posies.

1894 W. Raymond Sam & Sabina 34 He picked a posy for Sophia.

1931 A. Uttley Country Child xix. 245 The children took posies to school, lad's love and dark pansies squeezed tightly in their little hot hands.

1994 Harrowsmith Mar. 36/1 While North American children fashioned daisy chains and posies of dandelions, their English counterparts made cowslip balls.

b. figurative. A collection of pleasant poetry or rhetoric. Cf. anthology n. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > anthology

pomander1530

posya1569

garland1612

polyanthea1618

florilegy1621

anthology1647

florilegium1647

florilege1651

spicilege1837

spicilegium1846

a1569 A. Kingsmill Most Excellent & Comfortable Treat. (new ed.) (1585) C vij If it hath pleased almightie God any thing to refresh you with this my poore posy, his will be done.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. x. 153 That booke is as a most pleasant posie, composed of all the sweet smelling flowers, picked of purpose out of all his workes.

1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iv. sig. Dd3 Bee't so Faustulus! there repose thee, Cheere thy Country with thy posie.

1879 E. W. Gosse in Academy 11 Jan. 26/1 To collect..from [these] pages a posy of funny stories and gay quips.

1952 W. Barnett (title) A posy of poems.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 25 June 27 Proust's first book (in 1896) was a dandy's scented posy of stories, sketches and prose-poems.

†3. = poesy n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun]

yedOE

metrea1375

dittya1387

poesya1387

poemc1487

indite1501

posy1575

metro1619

pomec1820

1575 (title) The posies of George Gascoigne Esquire.

1578 J. Florio Firste Fruites f. 52 Gioconde was the Emperor Gratian when he read the Posies of Ausonius.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 63 Those, who..reade Comedies, and other posies.

1645 R. Harwood Loyall Subiects Retiring-roome 16 Make them into a Posey.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive , as posy-bank, posy-bouquet, posy-maker.

ΚΠ

1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 133 Nectar'd, Streames of Helicon do fleete; Whose Posey-Bancks delight the fairy-Elues.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 3 The diuine Prouidence is a skilfull Posy-maker, who knoweth artificially how to mingle all sortes of flowers, to make the Nose-gay of the Elect.

1878 Herald & Torch Light (Hagerstown, Maryland) 31 July ‘Almost into November, Noah,’ replied Captain Jenks. ‘Pretty late to be buying posy-holders.’

1904 St. Nicholas May 593/2 ‘What is this, sweetheart—a flower fête?’ asked Mrs. Lombard, smiling at the posy-bank under her window.

1931 Times 3 July 17/4 The maids wore frilled frocks of white organdie-muslin with wreaths of gardenias in their hair, and they carried Victorian posy-bouquets.

1997 Church Times 14 Nov. 10/5 Soft blue trailing lobelia competing with strong blue phacelia to climb a daisy bush, oleria. All these provide useful snippets for posy bowls.

b. attributive or as adj. having a flowery pattern, flowered, as posy gown, posy waistcoat (in earlier use British regional, now rare).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > sprigged or flowered

sprigged1701

pompadour1807

posy1835

1835 J. Holland Hist. & Descr. Fossil Fuel, Collieries, & Coal Trade xv. 293 Their [sc. coalminers'] holiday waistcoats, called by them posey jackets, were frequently of very curious patterns, displaying flowers of various dyes.

1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 89 Peg shall hev a posey gown, To mense her when she comes to town.

1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 492 A posy waiscoat aw hev got.

1984 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 21 Mar. Posy wallpaper brings the room a sense of intimacy.

C2.

posy ring n. a finger ring with a motto engraved inside (now historical).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > ring with inscription

posy ring1858

tau ring1876

name-ring1877

zodiac ring1895

1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxx. 234 He has bought posey-rings at Tunbridge Fair.

1896 M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 53 A posy-ring set with two rows of small pearls.

1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 158 Jewellery included posy rings—rings engraved with a line of poesy or poetry—some of which go back to mediaeval times.

1998 A. L. Luthi Sentimental Jewellery 6 The posy ring itself went out of fashion in the eighteenth century.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	posy
释义	posyn. Brit. /ˈpəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈpoʊzi/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s posye, late Middle English– posy, 1500s pozie, 1500s–1800s posey, 1500s– posie, 1600s po'sie; English regional 1800s pozy, 1800s– poises (plural; northern), 1800s– posey, 1900s– pwosy; Scottish pre-1700 pocy, pre-1700 1700s– posy, 1800s posie. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: poesy n. Etymology: Originally a variant of poesy n., reflecting a disyllabic pronunciation. Now (except in regional use) distinguished in form in sense 2. Compare pose n.³ 1. a. = poesy n. 3. Now archaic or historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [noun] > in verse posya1450 poesyc1450 ballad1529 society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > motto or legend reasona1387 wordc1390 posya1450 poesyc1450 pose?1450 legend?a1500 mot1575 motto1589 faburden1594 device1735 a1450 in Notes & Queries (1976) 221 294 (MED) Pur posy [c.1450 Sloane: Greene It wern fowre letterys of purposy, M and A, R and I, Tho wern letteris of Mary]. 1533 Noble Coronacyon Quene Anne A v Wafers with rose leaues, and about the wafers were written with letters of gold, this posey. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clx All the stretes and waies, beyng hanged and spired with rich and costly carpets, and posies written in euery place. a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) 31 Some haue their fansie so led as though money made men: let this be your Posie rather,..Manners makes man. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 148 Grati. A paltry ring..whose posie was..like Cutlers poetry... Ner. What talke you of the posie or the valew. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 86 The rest is dried Bricks, coloured ouer with Posies of Arabique and like worke. 1651 W. Cartwright Comedies, Tragi-comedies, & Poems 317 And what we now do hear blest spirits sing, Is but the happy Po'sie of that ring. a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 3 Our Posies for Rings are either immodest or irreligious. 1711 Boston News-let. 1 Oct. 2/2 A Silver Box in the Fashion of an Heart, Grav'd on the Lid and Bottom, With Branches and Several Posies. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 532 I should as soon expect to see a Critique on the Posie of a Ring, as on the Inscription of a Medal. 1896 M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 53 Joan was reading the posy [in the ring]—‘But one for me, but one for thee, but one of thee and me’. 1980 E. Jong Fanny iii. xv. 470 She, too, wore a Mourning Ring—not a Hair one nor a Death's Head like those Mrs. Locke had worn—but one on which this Posie was engrav'd: ‘Prepar'd Be to Follow Me’. 2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. 18 Posies were very often written on wedding rings. †b. An emblem or emblematic device. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > emblem or device signc1300 devicea1375 remembrancea1470 posya1565 ensign1579 impresaa1586 imprese1588 brief1594 impressa1616 emblem1616 impressa1628 notado1647 impressa1656 blazoning1828 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 256/1 Poysy, devyse, or worde, deuise.] a1565 T. Palmer Posies (Sloane 3794) f. 95 (heading) A table of all the pictures in this boke figured w^t y^e number of the poosee. 1582 R. Madox Reg. 29 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 281 Bequething..our selves to the protection of the Almyghtye and so according to the posey of our ship: Under the conduct of Christ wee forowed the seaze. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 139 In all tacit posies of His ascention this figure..is most emphatically significant. 2. a. A small bunch of flowers, frequently for holding in the hand or wearing as an ornament; a nosegay or small bouquet. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet bobc1400 posya1500 poesy1565 bough-pot1585 ramilletec1620 bouquet1717 tisty-tosty1825 booky1842 bokay1847 shower bouquet1891 porte-bouquet1900 a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 72 Thar was the garding with the flouris ourfret, Quich is in posy fore my lady set. 1573 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) at Admoveo Fasciculum ad nares admouebis, thou shalt put the posie to thy nose. c1618 F. Moryson Itinerary (1903) iv. v. i. 437 They are confuted, who traduce the English tounge to be like a beggers patched Cloke, which they should rather compayre to a Posey of sweetest flowers. 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Several Wits iv. xxxvii, in Playes Written 114 My lips shall be as flowery banks, whereon sweet Rhethorick grows..; from which banks, love shall wish to gather Posies of kisses, where every single kisse shall differ as Roses, Pinks, Violets, Primroses, and Daffidillies. 1681 in J. R. Magrath Flemings in Oxf. (1913) II. 310 Before her corps was carryed out of y^e house, ye gentry had given each of them, Posys of Laurell & Rosemary. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xi. 10 In a white Sarsnet Hood, and a Posie at her Bosome. 1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress xii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 252 Marj'ram sweet, in shepherd's posie found. 1810 W. Wordsworth Descr. Lakes in J. Wilkinson Select Views p. xix The little garden with..its borders and patches of flowers for Sunday posies. 1894 W. Raymond Sam & Sabina 34 He picked a posy for Sophia. 1931 A. Uttley Country Child xix. 245 The children took posies to school, lad's love and dark pansies squeezed tightly in their little hot hands. 1994 Harrowsmith Mar. 36/1 While North American children fashioned daisy chains and posies of dandelions, their English counterparts made cowslip balls. b. figurative. A collection of pleasant poetry or rhetoric. Cf. anthology n. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > anthology pomander1530 posya1569 garland1612 polyanthea1618 florilegy1621 anthology1647 florilegium1647 florilege1651 spicilege1837 spicilegium1846 a1569 A. Kingsmill Most Excellent & Comfortable Treat. (new ed.) (1585) C vij If it hath pleased almightie God any thing to refresh you with this my poore posy, his will be done. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. x. 153 That booke is as a most pleasant posie, composed of all the sweet smelling flowers, picked of purpose out of all his workes. 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iv. sig. Dd3 Bee't so Faustulus! there repose thee, Cheere thy Country with thy posie. 1879 E. W. Gosse in Academy 11 Jan. 26/1 To collect..from [these] pages a posy of funny stories and gay quips. 1952 W. Barnett (title) A posy of poems. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 25 June 27 Proust's first book (in 1896) was a dandy's scented posy of stories, sketches and prose-poems. †3. = poesy n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] yedOE metrea1375 dittya1387 poesya1387 poemc1487 indite1501 posy1575 metro1619 pomec1820 1575 (title) The posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. 1578 J. Florio Firste Fruites f. 52 Gioconde was the Emperor Gratian when he read the Posies of Ausonius. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 63 Those, who..reade Comedies, and other posies. 1645 R. Harwood Loyall Subiects Retiring-roome 16 Make them into a Posey. Compounds C1. a. General attributive , as posy-bank, posy-bouquet, posy-maker. ΚΠ 1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 133 Nectar'd, Streames of Helicon do fleete; Whose Posey-Bancks delight the fairy-Elues. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 3 The diuine Prouidence is a skilfull Posy-maker, who knoweth artificially how to mingle all sortes of flowers, to make the Nose-gay of the Elect. 1878 Herald & Torch Light (Hagerstown, Maryland) 31 July ‘Almost into November, Noah,’ replied Captain Jenks. ‘Pretty late to be buying posy-holders.’ 1904 St. Nicholas May 593/2 ‘What is this, sweetheart—a flower fête?’ asked Mrs. Lombard, smiling at the posy-bank under her window. 1931 Times 3 July 17/4 The maids wore frilled frocks of white organdie-muslin with wreaths of gardenias in their hair, and they carried Victorian posy-bouquets. 1997 Church Times 14 Nov. 10/5 Soft blue trailing lobelia competing with strong blue phacelia to climb a daisy bush, oleria. All these provide useful snippets for posy bowls. b. attributive or as adj. having a flowery pattern, flowered, as posy gown, posy waistcoat (in earlier use British regional, now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > sprigged or flowered sprigged1701 pompadour1807 posy1835 1835 J. Holland Hist. & Descr. Fossil Fuel, Collieries, & Coal Trade xv. 293 Their [sc. coalminers'] holiday waistcoats, called by them posey jackets, were frequently of very curious patterns, displaying flowers of various dyes. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 89 Peg shall hev a posey gown, To mense her when she comes to town. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 492 A posy waiscoat aw hev got. 1984 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 21 Mar. Posy wallpaper brings the room a sense of intimacy. C2. posy ring n. a finger ring with a motto engraved inside (now historical). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > ring with inscription posy ring1858 tau ring1876 name-ring1877 zodiac ring1895 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxx. 234 He has bought posey-rings at Tunbridge Fair. 1896 M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 53 A posy-ring set with two rows of small pearls. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 158 Jewellery included posy rings—rings engraved with a line of poesy or poetry—some of which go back to mediaeval times. 1998 A. L. Luthi Sentimental Jewellery 6 The posy ring itself went out of fashion in the eighteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450
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