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† ˈsembly Obs.
Forms: 3–6 semble, 4–5 semblé, semblee, 6 sembla, semblay, semely, semlay, semle, semly, 5–6 semblie, 6 samble, semblye, 6, 8 sembly.
[Aphetic form of assembly. (AF. had semblé, semblée.)]
1. A gathering of people; an assembly. to do sembly, to make sembly, to meet, to be present at an assembly.
a1300Cursor M. 6408 Moyses þan cald sir iosue, And mad him maister o þat semble. Ibid. 14489 Wit þis þai mad a gret semble. 1375Barbour Bruce ii. 380 In the stour sa hardyly He ruschyt, that all the semble schuk. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 31 Qwo-so be somouned to don semble er to congregacioun. c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxii, The semble, þat men clepeth gaderynge, shulde be maked in þis manere. c1400Mandeville (1839) Prol. 3 For a semblee of Peple withouten a Cheventeyn, or a chief Lord, is as a Flock of Scheep withouten a Schepperde. a1450Knt. de la Tour 63 A fest and a gret semble of ladies and gentilwomen. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 415 A blyth semblay was at his lychtyn doun. a1542Wyatt Penit. Ps. cii. 72 But to this samble running in the way, My strength failed to reach it at the full. 1562in Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1891) II. 25 Yf thenheritors..do not show sufficient title..this side the next quarter sembly after Cristenmas. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 60 A Council of..Fathers; whose sembly was called the Senate.
2. Suite, retinue.
14..Sir Beues 3963/23 (MS. E.) Now wendiþ sere B. wiþ hys semble To Hampmyngforde, þat goode cyte. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 105 To come to Mountanar that feir Citie, And eche a Prince bring his semble.
3. Hostile meeting, conflict; = assembly 3.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 797 Sa sare was þe semble þire seggis be-twene. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 92 At a semle þat segge in certayne was slayne. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 117 He that departis fra the ost in the tyme of semble, that is feid and wrytyn. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 454 Ane scharpar sembla ȝit wes thair neuer sene.
4. attrib., as sembly-house.
c1400Wyclif's Bible Prol. I. 51 The iij. orrible synne is symonie, and forswering in the semble hous. 1447Epist. Acad. Oxon. (O.H.S.) I. 260 In a tym of a convocation in our semble house. |