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merriment|ˈmɛrɪmənt|
[f. merry v. + -ment.]
†1. Something that contributes to mirth; a jest; ‘a piece of fooling’; spec. a brief comic dramatic entertainment. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 151 Your talke replenished with pleasant meriments. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1612) 146 When they, indeed of merriments in Loue did theare conspire. c1590Marlowe Faustus (1604) E 3, Beleeue me maister Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased me. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 27 They shal not be brought vpon the Stage for any goodnes, but in a merriment of the Usurer and the Diuel. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 324 Hee will..turne all to a merryment, if you take not the heat. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 292, I kept..the Germanes from langour, cherishing them with iouiall merriments.
†b. A humorous or scurrilous publication. Obs.
1697Bentley Diss. Epist. etc., æsop §9. 148 Not a bit better than our Penny-Merriments, printed at London-Bridge. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 598 The rapid increase of cheap pamphlets (under the title of Merriments).
2. The action (or † an act) of merry-making, or of ‘making merry’ over something; hilarious enjoyment or jocularity; mirth, fun; † a festivity.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 139 They doe it but in mocking merriment. 1596― Merch. V. ii. ii. 212 We haue friends That purpose merriment. 1602― Ham. v. i. 210 Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore? 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 674 [People] to crack'd Fiddle and hoarse Tabor, In Merriment did drudge and labour. 1674Playford Skill Mus. i. 61 Feasts and other Merriments. 1699Bentley Phal. 199 The Merriments in the Attic Villages. 1796Craufurd in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 337 Beaulieu and his exploits were subjects of merriment in the army. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xii. 162 And, mingled with all this, there is a certain element of grim merriment. 1903Edin. Rev. Apr. 498 The old harvest or ‘horkey’ suppers with their feasting and merriment..have too often been allowed to die out.
b. Used for: A subject for mirth.
1810Scott Lady of L. i. xvi, A summer night, in greenwood spent, Were but to-morrow's merriment.
†c. Entertainment, amusement. Obs.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 146, I see you are all bent To set against me, for your merriment. |