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custreln.Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: French coustellier ; custron n. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably partly (i) < Middle French coustellier, coustillier, coustiller soldier armed with a custil, servant to a knight or man-at-arms (c1460; see note), with metathesis, probably as a result of association with words in -rel suffix, and partly (ii) a variant (with suffix substitution: compare -rel suffix, -el suffix2) of custron n. (compare forms at that entry).Middle French coustellier (French †coustellier , †coustillier ) is < coustelle , coustille custil n. + -ier -ier suffix; compare also Middle French coustilleur (15th cent.) in same sense, with suffix substitution. With the depreciative sense 2, which is chiefly attested in β. forms, compare custron n. 1. society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > military servant > [noun] the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > groom 1474 in T. Rymer (1710) XI. 819 (MED) To do him Service of Werre..as a Custrell to attend about the King oure Soveraine Lord's awn Persone. 1495 King Henry VII Let. 20 July in H. Ellis (1824) 1st Ser. I. 21 To make asmany speres with their custrelles and di. lances..as ye can furnisshe. 1548 f. vj The kyng ordeined fiftie Gentle menne to bee speres, euery of theim to haue an Archer, a Dimilaunce, and a Custrell. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 107/1 in I Suche coysterels, and other as remayned with the Scottish cariage, seing the discomfiture of theyr aduersaries, ranne foorth and pursued them into those marishes. a1600 ( Rec. Bluemantle Pursuivant (Julius) in C. L. Kingsford (1913) 381 (MED) j penon for the custerelles, and ye bowes on horsebake. 1698 J. Strype App. iii. ii. 33 To fight hand to hand with Death without a Custrel, or any Esquire. 1721 N. Bailey Custrel, a Servant to a Man of Arms. or a Prince's Life-guard. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed ii, in II. 44 Nor can you fly from your standard without such infamy as even coistrels or grooms are unwilling to incur. 1868 S. D. Scott II. xii. 529 In numerical calculations, men-at-arms should be multiplied by 3, as each one was attended by a page and a custrel. 1952 J. D. Mackie viii. 269 Each spear was..accompanied by a custrel, who should rank as a demi-lance. 2007 R. James Notes 266 Three men—an archer, a demi-lance and a custrel—similarly supported the Gentlemen Pensioners. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach > male 1570 P. Levens sig. Eii/1 A Coystrel, mirgizo. 1588 A. Fraunce Ded. sig. ¶4v The swarming rabble of our coystrell curates. 1591 i. sig. C3 Shamst thou not coystrell, loathsome dunghill swad, To grace thy carkasse with an ornament. 1601 B. Jonson iii. iv. sig. H2v You whorson bragging coystryll . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. iii. 38 He's a Coward and a Coystrill that will not drinke to my Neece. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Phillips vi. 9 In this same rage, the hair-brain'd questril Shew'd the foundations of each nostril. 1783 (new ed.) I A coistril..Met. homo timidus. 1825 J. T. Brockett Coystril, a raw inexperienced lad; a contemptible fellow. 1835 J. Hogg II. 54 You never saw a shabbier keystrel or a worse-looking boy, did you not? 1915 1 Jan. Ye were fear't to cry't afore his face, ye cowardly, cowardly custril! 1932 R. Macaulay i. xii. 94 A very ugly foggy coystrell fellow. the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Alphabet. Dict. in sig. Ccc5/2 Coistrel. 1679 E. Coles (ed. 2) A Coistrel [Young Lad], Adolescentulus. 1688 G. Miege ii. sig. K4v/2 Coistrel, a young Lad, un jeune Garçon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1474 |