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单词 disour
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disourn.

Forms: Middle English disur, disour, dyssour, Middle English–1500s dysour, Middle English dysowre, 1500s disor, dyser, dyzar, disare, dissar, (1800s Historical dissour, disour).
Etymology: < Old French disour, -eor, -or, -eur, agent-noun < dire , dis-ant to say. Compare Provençal dizedor , Spanish decidor , Italian dicitore , representing a Romanic type *dīcitōrem , < Latin dīcĕre to say, tell. See also dizzard n.
Obsolete (exc. historical).
A (professional) story-teller; a reciter of ‘gestes’; a jester.
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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) Prol. 75 I mad nought for no disours..Bot for þe luf of symple menne, Þat strange Inglis canne not kenne.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 50 Hold not þou with harlotes, here not heore tales..For þei ben þe deueles disours, I do þe to vndurstonde.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 172 ‘It is but a dido’, quod þis doctour, ‘a dysoures tale’.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27932 Speche o disur, Rimes vnright, gest of Jogolur.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ix. vi. 355/2 This mynstrall is the worlde whiche playeth with folke of this worlde as a mynstrall as a Jogulour and as a dysour.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/1 Dissar, a scoffer, saigefol.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 374/1 He playeth the deuils disor euen in this point.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. iii. 162 The conteurs and the jestours, who are also called dissours, and seggers..were literally tale-tellers.
1890 Q. Rev. Oct. 439 Disours, jongleurs, gleemen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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