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† ˈdisour Obs. (exc. Hist.)
Forms: 4 disur, disour, dyssour, 4–6 dysour, 5 dysowre, 6 disor, dyser, dyzar, disare, dissar, (9 Hist. dissour, disour).
[a. OF. disour, -eor, -or, -eur, agent-n. from dire, dis-ant to say. Cf. Pr. dizedor, Sp. decidor, It. dicitore, repr. a Romanic type *dīcitōrem, from L. dīcĕre to say, tell. See also dizzard.]
A (professional) story-teller; a reciter of ‘gestes’; a jester.
a1300Cursor M. 27932 (Cott.) Speche o disur, rimes vnright, gest of Jogolur. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) Prol. 75, I mad nought for no disours..Bot for þe luf of symple menne, Þat strange Inglis canne not kenne. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 50 Hold not þou with harlotes, here not heore tales..For þei ben þe deueles disours, I do þe to vndurstonde. 1377Ibid. B. xiii. 172 ‘It is but a dido’, quod þis doctour, ‘a dysoures tale’. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) ix. vi. 355/2 This mynstrall is the worlde whiche playeth with folke of this worlde as a mynstrall as a Jogulour and as a dysour. 1530Palsgr. 214/1 Dissar, a scoffer, saigefol. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 374/1 He playeth the deuils disor euen in this point. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. iii. 162 The conteurs and the jestours, who are also called dissours, and seggers..were literally tale-tellers. 1890Q. Rev. Oct. 439 Disours, jongleurs, gleemen. |