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单词 mournival
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mournivaln.

Brit. /ˈmɔːnᵻvl/, U.S. /ˈmɔrnəv(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s mornyfle, 1600s mornevall, 1600s mornivall, 1600s mournaval, 1600s mournifal, 1600s mourniuall, 1600s mournivall, 1600s murnivall, 1600s murrinall (transmission error), 1600s–1700s mourneval, 1600s– mournival, 1600s– murnival.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mornifle.
Etymology: < Middle French, French mornifle (1530) a group of four cards, perhaps < mornifle a slap in the face, with allusion to the impact that a good hand of cards has on an opponent (although this is only attested from 1609, in form morniffle), further etymology uncertain: see discussion in Trésor de la langue française s.v. mornifle.
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.
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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.
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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).
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