单词 | mournival |
释义 | mournivaln. 1. Cards. In the former game of gleek: a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves, in one hand. Also in figurative context. Cf. purtaunte n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards cater-trey?a1500 mournival1530 sequence1575 pair royal1608 septieme1651 tierce1659 pair1674 purtaunte1688 quart major1718 matrimonya1743 queen-suit1744 quart1746 prial1776 flux1798 fredon1798 tricon1798 intrigue1830 straight1841 marriage1861 under-sequence1863 straight five1864 double pair-royal?1870 run?1870 short suit1876 four1883 fourchette1885 meld1887 doubleton1906 canasta1948 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 246/1 Mornyfle a maner of play, mornifle. 1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque D 2 b Sta. Give me a mournaval of aces, and a gleeke of queens. Long. And me a gleeke of knaves. Scat. Vdslid, I am gleek't this time. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 68 A Mournival is either all the Aces, the four Kings, Queens, or Knaves. 1713 E. Ward Poet. Entertainer v. 21 (title of poem) The Mournival of Knaves. An Epigram. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 331 I'se ne'er win by Mournival or blaze, Or conquering Knave. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. v. 114 Concerning a certain game at gleek, and a certain mournival of aces held by his lordship. 1982 M. Dummett Game of Tarot 47 [Gleek] began, like Piquet, with the players making scores for ‘ruff’.., and then for ‘gleeks’ and ‘murnivals’ (sets of three or four of a kind). 1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games viii. 94 The object here [i.e. in Gleek] is to acquire..three or four Aces, Kings, Queens, or Jacks, thereby scoring for gleek (three) or mournival (four). 2. In extended use: a set of four things or people. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four quaternionc1384 quadrivial?a1475 messa1529 quaternity1529 quaternio1601 mournival1631 quadrate1637 quaternarya1638 tetrad1653 quadruplet1795 quartetto1807 quatrain1862 quartet1882 quad1896 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Intermean iv. 79 in Wks. II Cen. Let a protest goe out against him. Mir. A mourniuall of protests; or a gleeke at least! ?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 272 Elements..Natures first mournival. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xiii, in Wks. (1721) III. 390 With his double mourneval of Eyes, Tarantula a poor Apulian spies. 1923 Public Opinion 28 Dec. 648/2 Him whom Coleridge set above all other English writers except Shakespeare, Milton & Bacon, exhibiting these four names in what our forefathers called a mourneval, a harmony of four. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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