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frumenty, furmety|ˈfruːməntɪ, ˈfɜːmɪtɪ|
Forms: α. 4 frumentee, 5 frumyte, 6–7 frumentie, -tye, 7 frummetry, 7, 9 fromenty, 7–9 frumet(t)y, 8 frumentary, 9 fromety, frumerty, -arty, frummaty, -ety, 5– frumenty. β. 4–5 furmente, 5, 6, 9 -ty, 6 fermeté, fer-, fir-, four-, fur-, fyrmentie, -ye, 7 fir-, formity, formety, 8–9 fu(r)metry, furmetree, -etty, 7–9 furmety, -ity.
[ME. frumentee, furmente, a. OF. frumentée, fourmentee, f. frument, fourment (mod.F. froment):—late popular L. *frŭmentum = class. L. frūmentum corn.]
1. A dish made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, and seasoned with cinnamon, sugar, etc.
a1400Morte Arth. 180 Flesch fluriste of fermysone with frumentee noble. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 383 Fatt venesoun with frumenty. 1483Cath. Angl. 144/2 Frumyte, frumenticium. 1562Turner Herbal ii. Ee b/1 Frumentie made of sodden wheate. 1732Acc. Workhouses 11 Dinner..Frumetty and Beer at 3 o'clock. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 68 The Squire made his supper of frumenty, a dish made of wheat cakes boiled in milk with rich spices. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. II. 153 Mothers..who made their butter and their fromenty well.
βc1390Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. 15 Make furmente as before. c1483Caxton Vocab. 6 b, Furmente whiche is made of whete. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Life (1560) G v, Peasen, beanes, mylke, cheese, ryse, and firmentie. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca i. ii, He'll finde you out a food that needs no teeth nor stomack; a strange formity Will feed ye up as fat as hens i'th forehead. 1796Sporting Mag. VIII. 220 John Gawston, eat such a quantity of what is called furmety..that he actually burst! 1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 56 The high bowl..Fill'd full of furmety. 1859Mrs. Gaskell Round the Sofa 42 We had..furmenty on Mothering Sunday. 1864Knight Passages Wrkg. Life I. 28 On that fourth Sunday in Lent, I regularly feasted on Furmety.
†2. A kind of wheat or spelt. Obs.
1600Surflet Country Farme v. xvii. 687 Furmentie is that which the Latines call Alica or Chondrus, and it is a kinde of wheate, whereof..is made a kinde of grosse meale, resembling oatmeale. 1601Holland Pliny xviii. xxiii. 582 After the Frumentie or Spike corn be taken off, there be pulse sowed three times, one after another.
3. Wheat mashed for brewing. rare (? nonce-use).
1882tr. Thausing's Beer iv. 197 The wheat is crushed and mixed with water. This frumenty is allowed to ferment.
4. Comb., as frumenty- or furmety-corn, frumenty-kettle, frumenty-pot, frumenty-seller. Also frumenty sweat (see quot. 1847).
1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xvii. 19 The woman..strowed firmentye corne theron. c1550Wyl Bucke His Test. (Halliw.) 43, I bequeth my grece to..the fermeté potte. 1623Massinger Bondman i. iii, Licking his lips Like a spaniel o'er a furmenty-pot. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 127 Simpering like a Frumety-Kettle. 1847Halliwell s.v., A person in a dilemma is said to be in a frumenty sweat. 1889T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. i, The furmity seller decided to close for the night. |