tantivyadv.n.adj.int.

Brit.

/tanˈtɪvi/,

/ˈtantɪvi/, U.S.

/tænˈtɪvi/

Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s tantivie, tantivey, tantive, 1700s tantivee, tantivi, tantwivy.

Etymology: Origin obscure: ? echoic, representing the sound of a horse's feet.

Now rare or archaic.

†A. adv.

At full gallop; swiftly; headlong.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > riding fast

upon the switch and spur1597

tantivy1648

whip and spur1681

hell-for-leather1889

1648 Fraction in the Assembly 7 Till her Tongue travel'd tantivie, and more then a Canterbury pace.

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. sig. K1 Up at five a Clock in the morning..And Tantivy all the Country over, where Hunting, Hawking, or any Sport is to be made.

1690 Pagan Prince xxi. 58 (heading) How he rode Tantivy to Papimania.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. Pref. sig. A2^v (Like so many Asses) to let Hypocrisy bestride them,..and ride them—Tantivee.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Away they went tantwivy, away they went full speed.

1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ix. 246 There are those amongst us who ride tantivie to Rome, and have already made out half the journey.

B. n.

1. (From the adverb.) A rapid gallop; a ride at this pace. Also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > a rapid rate

post-pace1546

post speed1546

full gallop1569

gallop1651

tantivya1658

spank1801

lick1847

cracker1871

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion > rapid

spurnc1330

racec1440

tantivya1658

scurry1824

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop

wallopingc1440

gallop1523

full gallop1569

gallopinga1616

gallop-rake1653

tantivya1658

stretching gallop1815

a1658 J. Cleveland Reply Parliament-officer in Wks. (1687) 93 I expected to hear from you in the Language of..the Prodigal Son, and not in such a Tantivy of Language.

1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions xi. 94 Jogging on their own pace, neither the high-trot nor the Tantivey.

1721 C. Cibber Refusal iv. 59 Ah! poor Soul! piteous bad! All upon the Tantivy again!

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 125 The tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view..gives a voice to the air.

2. A nickname given to the post-Restoration High-Churchmen and Tories, esp. in the reigns of Charles II and James II.This arose 1680–81, when a caricature was published in which a number of High Church clergymen were represented as mounted upon the Church of England and ‘riding tantivy’ to Rome, behind the Duke of York. Cf.

1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 25 Dugdale. And there is one Picture that I have not shewed yet... Jefferies. There are some Churchmen; what are they a doing? Dugdale. They are a parcel of Tantivy men riding to Rome, and here's the Duke of York, half Man, half Devil, trumpeting before them.

1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 59 Mr. Charlett. It was the pictures of the Tantivies and the Towzer [Roger L'Estrange], and he told me they were made by Colledge, he was a very ingenious man.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §130 About Half a Dozen of the Tantivies were mounted upon the Church of England, booted and spurred, riding it, like an old Hack, Tantivy to Rome.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Toryism or conservatism > a Tory or conservative > types of

tantivy1680

roary1681

high Tory1706

high-flying Tory1708

Tory Democrat1805

Tory-Radical1834

neo-Tory1865

wet1980

dry1983

1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 23 The Clergy..called them Priests, and Bishops, which in these days would pass for Episcopal tantivies.

1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 124 The former are called by the latter, tories, tantivies, Yorkists, high flown church men, &c.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tantivy... Also a Nick-name given by the Dissenters to a Worldly-minded Church-man, that bestirs himself for Preferment.

1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 Feb. (O.H.S.) I. 336 Hei! day! What in the High-Rope! a high-Flyer and a Tantivi!

1730 J. Swift Vindic. Ld. C—— 37 Favouring none but High-Church, High-flyers,..Tip-top-gallon-men, Jacobites, Tantivyes, Anti-Hanoverians..and the like.

1841 T. B. Macaulay Comic Dramatists in Ess. (1887) 613 Collier..was a Tory of the highest sort, such as in the cant of his age was called a Tantivy.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 256.

3. A blast or flourish on a horn.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > cadence or flourish on horn

blas?c1225

forloinc1369

windc1374

strakea1425

strakinga1425

rechasec1425

rechasingc1425

recopec1425

seekc1500

mort1555

recheat1575

gibbet1590

senneta1593

relief1602

horn-call1632

call1677

stroke1688

tantivy1785

tralira1801

tra-la-la1886

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Tantwivy was the sound of the hunting horn in full cry, or that of a post horn.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 97 A schoolboy put an end to all the Childe Harolding by a tantivy on a bugle.

C. adj.

? originally, in tantivy men and the like, attributive use of B. 1; afterwards often of B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > High Church > [adjective]

Canterburian1570

high-flying1678

high1681

tantivy1681

Laudian1691

High Church1704

altitudinarian1752

Anglo-Catholic1838

society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [adjective] > conservative > of Tories or conservatives > types of

tantivy1681

high Tory1682

roary1682

Tory-Radical1823

true blue1827

Tory Democratic1836

Eldonine1855

Eldonian1898

wet1981

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 15 Mar. 2/1 In favour of the Tory and Tantivy party.

1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 30 Perverted with Ill Customs, Tantivie-Opinions, and Court-Notions.

1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 26 Whereas you say it was a high Presbyterian Trot, I rather believe it was a Tantivy Gallop.

1691 Humble Addr. Publicans in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 246 Had King Rehoboam kept his Tantivy Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance to himself,..the poor People had been his Servants for ever.

1715 State Quacks 21 High Tantivee Scaramouches make Choice of a vast Heap of Epithets as unintelligible..as impertinent.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. viii. 216 Master Wildrake is one of the old school—one of the tantivy boys.

1884 Q. Rev. July 32 Birmingham itself..to become as great a stronghold of ‘tantivy’ politics as it was in the days when it rabbled Priestley.

D. int.

An imitation of the sound of galloping or scudding feet; later also of the sound of a horn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [interjection] > sound of footsteps

pat1681

tantivy1697

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [interjection] > sound of horn

tivy1670

tantivy1697

1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop ii. i Æsop..But (like some of our friends) they found 'Twas safer much to scour. Rog. Tantive! Tantive! Tantive!

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 189 Tantivee, tivee, tivee, tivee, High and Low, Hark, hark how the Merry, merry Horn does blow.

1821 Sporting Mag. 8 156 Tantivy! tantivy! the hunting-horn blew.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tantivy
释义	† tantivyv. Etymology: < tantivy adv. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To ride full tilt; to hurry away. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride rapidly runeOE drivec1300 scurry1580 tantivy1681 to ride triumph1761 jockey1767 tivy1842 spank1843 rocket1862 to let out1889 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 16 Aug. 1/1 You will Tantivy then out of Town. 1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. viii. 156 Pray where are they gone, tantivying? 2. transitive. ? To call ‘tantivy’; to ‘give it him’ for calling one ‘tantivy’. ΚΠ 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 20 Sept. 1/1 Never a word said to them for Torying, Tantivying, and Masquerading his Majesties most loyal and dutiful Subjects. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Oct. (1948) II. 381 I'll Tantivy him with a vengeance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). tantivyadv.n.adj.int. Brit. /tanˈtɪvi/, /ˈtantɪvi/, U.S. /tænˈtɪvi/ Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s tantivie, tantivey, tantive, 1700s tantivee, tantivi, tantwivy. Etymology: Origin obscure: ? echoic, representing the sound of a horse's feet. Now rare or archaic. †A. adv. At full gallop; swiftly; headlong. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > riding fast upon the switch and spur1597 tantivy1648 whip and spur1681 hell-for-leather1889 1648 Fraction in the Assembly 7 Till her Tongue travel'd tantivie, and more then a Canterbury pace. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. sig. K1 Up at five a Clock in the morning..And Tantivy all the Country over, where Hunting, Hawking, or any Sport is to be made. 1690 Pagan Prince xxi. 58 (heading) How he rode Tantivy to Papimania. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. Pref. sig. A2^v (Like so many Asses) to let Hypocrisy bestride them,..and ride them—Tantivee. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Away they went tantwivy, away they went full speed. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ix. 246 There are those amongst us who ride tantivie to Rome, and have already made out half the journey. B. n. 1. (From the adverb.) A rapid gallop; a ride at this pace. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > a rapid rate post-pace1546 post speed1546 full gallop1569 gallop1651 tantivya1658 spank1801 lick1847 cracker1871 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion > rapid spurnc1330 racec1440 tantivya1658 scurry1824 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop wallopingc1440 gallop1523 full gallop1569 gallopinga1616 gallop-rake1653 tantivya1658 stretching gallop1815 a1658 J. Cleveland Reply Parliament-officer in Wks. (1687) 93 I expected to hear from you in the Language of..the Prodigal Son, and not in such a Tantivy of Language. 1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions xi. 94 Jogging on their own pace, neither the high-trot nor the Tantivey. 1721 C. Cibber Refusal iv. 59 Ah! poor Soul! piteous bad! All upon the Tantivy again! 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 125 The tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view..gives a voice to the air. 2. A nickname given to the post-Restoration High-Churchmen and Tories, esp. in the reigns of Charles II and James II.This arose 1680–81, when a caricature was published in which a number of High Church clergymen were represented as mounted upon the Church of England and ‘riding tantivy’ to Rome, behind the Duke of York. Cf. 1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 25 Dugdale. And there is one Picture that I have not shewed yet... Jefferies. There are some Churchmen; what are they a doing? Dugdale. They are a parcel of Tantivy men riding to Rome, and here's the Duke of York, half Man, half Devil, trumpeting before them. 1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 59 Mr. Charlett. It was the pictures of the Tantivies and the Towzer [Roger L'Estrange], and he told me they were made by Colledge, he was a very ingenious man. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §130 About Half a Dozen of the Tantivies were mounted upon the Church of England, booted and spurred, riding it, like an old Hack, Tantivy to Rome. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Toryism or conservatism > a Tory or conservative > types of tantivy1680 roary1681 high Tory1706 high-flying Tory1708 Tory Democrat1805 Tory-Radical1834 neo-Tory1865 wet1980 dry1983 1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 23 The Clergy..called them Priests, and Bishops, which in these days would pass for Episcopal tantivies. 1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 124 The former are called by the latter, tories, tantivies, Yorkists, high flown church men, &c. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tantivy... Also a Nick-name given by the Dissenters to a Worldly-minded Church-man, that bestirs himself for Preferment. 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 Feb. (O.H.S.) I. 336 Hei! day! What in the High-Rope! a high-Flyer and a Tantivi! 1730 J. Swift Vindic. Ld. C—— 37 Favouring none but High-Church, High-flyers,..Tip-top-gallon-men, Jacobites, Tantivyes, Anti-Hanoverians..and the like. 1841 T. B. Macaulay Comic Dramatists in Ess. (1887) 613 Collier..was a Tory of the highest sort, such as in the cant of his age was called a Tantivy. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 256. 3. A blast or flourish on a horn. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > cadence or flourish on horn blas?c1225 forloinc1369 windc1374 strakea1425 strakinga1425 rechasec1425 rechasingc1425 recopec1425 seekc1500 mort1555 recheat1575 gibbet1590 senneta1593 relief1602 horn-call1632 call1677 stroke1688 tantivy1785 tralira1801 tra-la-la1886 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Tantwivy was the sound of the hunting horn in full cry, or that of a post horn. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 97 A schoolboy put an end to all the Childe Harolding by a tantivy on a bugle. C. adj. ? originally, in tantivy men and the like, attributive use of B. 1; afterwards often of B. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > High Church > [adjective] Canterburian1570 high-flying1678 high1681 tantivy1681 Laudian1691 High Church1704 altitudinarian1752 Anglo-Catholic1838 society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [adjective] > conservative > of Tories or conservatives > types of tantivy1681 high Tory1682 roary1682 Tory-Radical1823 true blue1827 Tory Democratic1836 Eldonine1855 Eldonian1898 wet1981 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 15 Mar. 2/1 In favour of the Tory and Tantivy party. 1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 30 Perverted with Ill Customs, Tantivie-Opinions, and Court-Notions. 1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 26 Whereas you say it was a high Presbyterian Trot, I rather believe it was a Tantivy Gallop. 1691 Humble Addr. Publicans in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 246 Had King Rehoboam kept his Tantivy Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance to himself,..the poor People had been his Servants for ever. 1715 State Quacks 21 High Tantivee Scaramouches make Choice of a vast Heap of Epithets as unintelligible..as impertinent. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. viii. 216 Master Wildrake is one of the old school—one of the tantivy boys. 1884 Q. Rev. July 32 Birmingham itself..to become as great a stronghold of ‘tantivy’ politics as it was in the days when it rabbled Priestley. D. int. An imitation of the sound of galloping or scudding feet; later also of the sound of a horn. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [interjection] > sound of footsteps pat1681 tantivy1697 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [interjection] > sound of horn tivy1670 tantivy1697 1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop ii. i Æsop..But (like some of our friends) they found 'Twas safer much to scour. Rog. Tantive! Tantive! Tantive! 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 189 Tantivee, tivee, tivee, tivee, High and Low, Hark, hark how the Merry, merry Horn does blow. 1821 Sporting Mag. 8 156 Tantivy! tantivy! the hunting-horn blew. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1681adv.n.adj.int.1648
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† tantivyv.

tantivyadv.n.adj.int.