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minstrelsy|ˈmɪnstrəlsɪ|
Forms: α. 4 menestrelsy, -tralcie, menistralsi; β. 4 menstralcye, 5 menstralcy, -sie, -sy; 4 menstracie, menstracy, 5 menstrasy(e; γ. 4 mynystralsye; δ. 4 (mistralsi, munstralsye), minstralcie, -cye, mynstralcie, 4–5 minstralcy, mynstralcye, -sy, 4, 8 minstralsy, 5 mynstralsi, -sie, mynstrelsee, -cye, mynstrylsy, 5–6 mynstralcy, -sye, mynstrelsy, 6 minstrelcy, 6–7 minstralsie, 7 minstrelsie; 4 minstracie, mynstrasy, -trecye, -trisye, 5 (munstrassye), mynstracy; 7– minstrelsy.
[ad. OF. menestralsie, -trancie, f. menestrel a minstrel: see minstrel.]
1. The art, occupation, or practice of a minstrel; the practice of playing and singing; in mod. use only poet. and arch. † to make minstrelsy, to produce music.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4716 He hadde no grace to sey with-alle His graces ryghte deuoutely For þe noyse of þe mynstralsy. 13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 3363 Than was thare made grete menestrelsy. a1350St. Thomas 38 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 20 Þare was..grete mirth of sere menistralsi [v.r. mistralsi]. c1350Will. Palerne 1155 Alle maner menstracie þere was mad. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 11 Þer was Murþe and Munstralsye Meede with to plese. 1393Ibid. C. xvi. 196 What manere mynstralcie..Hast þow vsed? c1440Bone Flor. 168 Thorow the towne the knyghtes sange,..Makeyng swete mynstralcy. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xl. 20 Wyne and mynstralsye reioyse the hert. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnas. i. ii. (Arb.) 11 He did chaunt his rurall minstralsie. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 24 To have our Passions lie at the mercy of a little Minstrelsy. 1768Beattie Minstr. i. xvi, Save one short pipe of rudest minstrelsy. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. 104 The minstrelsy of psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. v. 274 Verses which breathe the true fire of the warlike minstrelsy common to Greek and Teuton.
†b. Harmony. Obs.
1605Camden Rem., Rhymes 18 Which delighted in nothing more then in this Minstrelsie of meeters.
2. A body of minstrels; an assemblage or gathering of minstrels.
c1350Will. Palerne 5011 So many maner minstracie at þat mariage were. c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 260 Toforn hym gooth the loude Mynstralcye. c1440Gesta Rom. lxiv. 276 (Harl. MS.), Oþer worthi lady ȝede to þe same chirch, with gret mynstracy afore hire. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxli. 267 Euery man in good aray and euery crafte with his mynstralsye. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 168 Ministring Spirits, trained up in Feast and Song; Such hast thou arm'd, the Minstrelsie of Heav'n. 1740Somerville Hobbinol iii. 231 Before him march in Files The rural Minstralsy. 1800–24Campbell On Camp Hill near Hastings iii, At the Conqueror's side There his minstrelsy sat harp in hand. 1855Prescott Philip II, i. iv. I. 49 The minstrelsy played before them till they reached the royal residence.
†3. collect. A number or collection of musical instruments. Also, a kind of musical instrument.
c1386Chaucer Manciple's T. 9 Pleyen he koude on euery Mynstralcie. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 186 The voys of orgons and of dyvers menstralcy. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxcix. 443 The spanyerdes..departed, makyng great noyse of trumpettes and other mynstrelsies.
4. Minstrel poetry; occas. a body of minstrel poetry.
1802Scott (title) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. 1830H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 35 The Iliad and the Odyssey..are compilations..arranged by successive editors, but still compilations of minstrelsies, the works of various poets in the heroic age. 1845Craik Hist. Lit. Eng. V. 150 That remarkable body of national song known as the Jacobite minstrelsy. |