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▪ I. roˈmancy, n.
[Alteration of romance n.; perh. after Sp. romance or It. romanzo.]
†1. A romance; = romance n. 3. Obs.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 504 Must..shee be named as if in a Romancy, that relates of Knights, and distressed Damosells, the sad Aduentures? 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 293 A new coined romancy, or strange history of love adventures. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 394 Our Star-gazing Arian..has..a great many Papers and Manuscripts to prove the Arian Romancies.
2. Romance language. rare—1.
1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 807 The ‘clerk’ who translated from the Latin into ‘romancy’ many a learned treatise.
▪ II. † roˈmancy, a. Obs.
[f. romance n. + -y.]
Associated with, or redolent of, romance; romantic.
1654Gayton's Pleas. Notes Pref. Verses, Where others Lamps have burnt long Attick nights, With ranck Romancie oyle to grease their Knights. 1659Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 269 An old house situated in a romancey place. 1682Shadwell Lanc. Witches 1, Canst thou think they are such romancy Knights, to take Ladies with nothing? |