mummeryn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌm(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈməməri/

Forms: 1500s momerie, 1500s momery, 1500s mommerye, 1500s momry, 1500s mummary, 1500s mummarye, 1500s mummerye, 1500s mumry, 1500s–1600s mummerie, 1500s–1700s mommery, 1500s– mummery; Scottish pre-1700 mommerie, pre-1700 mummerie, pre-1700 mumre, 1700s– mummery.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French momerie.

Etymology: < Middle French momerie, mommerie (c1440 in sense ‘masquerade, danced entertainment’, 1566 denoting religious practices judged ridiculous; French momerie ) < Old French mommer mum v. + -erie -ery suffix. Compare Italian mommeria (late 15th cent. as momaria ), Spanish momería (first half of the 16th cent.), and also Middle Dutch mommerie (Dutch mommerij ), Middle Low German mummerie , mommerie , German †Mummerei (16th cent.). See further discussion s.v. mum v.

1. = mumming n. 1a. Also: an instance of this, a performance by mummers. Now chiefly historical. †in mummery: in fancy dress (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > a mumming

mumming1417

mummery1465

mumchance1581

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [adjective]

in mummery?1592

dominoed1885

1465–6 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1884) VII. 423 Pro le mumre regis erga Natale.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 246/1 Mommery, mommerie.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxix This yere many goodly and gorgious Mommeries were made [sc. at Christmas].

1557 Debellacion Salem & Bizance (new ed.) in Wks. Sir T. More 975/1 This good man playeth as though he came in in a mummary, for any one worde he saith.

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xiii. 482 Their holy One of Rome..burnte that most Reuerende Father D. Cranmere at Rome in a mummerie.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. D2^v Prouide me foure Visards, Foure Gownes, a boxe, and a Drumme, For I intend to go in mummery.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. 86 Divers mummeries of several inventions were represented.

1719 E. Fenton in T. Southerne Spartan Dame Prol. sig. A3^v Your Fathers..Disdain'd the Mummery of foreign Strollers.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (U. S. ed. 2) v. 103 Masqueings or mummeries were favourite sports at Christmas in old times.

1973 R. L. Brohier Discovering Ceylon xii. 169 A common and everyday practice which accredits an extensive belief in the influence of the evil eye can be traced in the various forms of mummery associated with religious processions called perahera.

1986 T. O. Echewa Crippled Dancer i. iii. 44 Over the years the carnival and the mummery had grown in importance.

2. depreciatively. Ridiculous ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual regarded as pretentious or hypocritical); an instance of this. Also: extravagant costume or other paraphernalia associated with or worthy of such ceremony.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [noun] > ridiculous or hypocritical

mumming1528

mummery1549

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun]

mumming1528

trumpery1542

mummery1549

1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John x. f. 1–4, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II Pompous byshops and monkyshe mumry.

1590–1 R. Bruce Serm. 259 Ye see they have already preferred the leaven of the Pharisees and gone to mumchances, mummeries and unknown language.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 63 She's invisible, under the lock and key of the Prelates.., they onely are..the go-betweens of this trim devis'd mummery.

1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 101 The Heathen Religion, which consisted all in Mommery and Madness.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. i. 143 Elves and Fairies, and other such Mummery .

1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta II. xviii*. 8 There is so much nonsense and mummery in their worship, that they are afraid lest strangers should believe they are serious.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. vii. 126 Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xvi. 259 When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men..had crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, the house felt wholesomer.

1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. ii. 104 She was an artist or designer of some sort in what was called an ecclesiastical warehouse..and she was no doubt abandoned to mummeries on that account—if not quite a Papist.

1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction xviii. 281 The little children..waiting for Father Christmas in his fine mummery of red and white and cotton wool to hand the presents from the Yule-tide tree.

1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday iii. 65 The preposterous vocabulary of its [sc. the Ku Klux Klan's] ritual could be made the vehicle for all that infantile love of hocus-pocus and mummery..which survives in the adult.

1984 R. Howard Lining Up iii. 61 Let other men indulge the mummery endorsed by these obsequious thoroughfares with such abandon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mummery
释义	mummeryn. Brit. /ˈmʌm(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈməməri/ Forms: 1500s momerie, 1500s momery, 1500s mommerye, 1500s momry, 1500s mummary, 1500s mummarye, 1500s mummerye, 1500s mumry, 1500s–1600s mummerie, 1500s–1700s mommery, 1500s– mummery; Scottish pre-1700 mommerie, pre-1700 mummerie, pre-1700 mumre, 1700s– mummery. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French momerie. Etymology: < Middle French momerie, mommerie (c1440 in sense ‘masquerade, danced entertainment’, 1566 denoting religious practices judged ridiculous; French momerie ) < Old French mommer mum v. + -erie -ery suffix. Compare Italian mommeria (late 15th cent. as momaria ), Spanish momería (first half of the 16th cent.), and also Middle Dutch mommerie (Dutch mommerij ), Middle Low German mummerie , mommerie , German †Mummerei (16th cent.). See further discussion s.v. mum v. 1. = mumming n. 1a. Also: an instance of this, a performance by mummers. Now chiefly historical. †in mummery: in fancy dress (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > a mumming mumming1417 mummery1465 mumchance1581 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [adjective] in mummery?1592 dominoed1885 1465–6 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1884) VII. 423 Pro le mumre regis erga Natale. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 246/1 Mommery, mommerie. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxix This yere many goodly and gorgious Mommeries were made [sc. at Christmas]. 1557 Debellacion Salem & Bizance (new ed.) in Wks. Sir T. More 975/1 This good man playeth as though he came in in a mummary, for any one worde he saith. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xiii. 482 Their holy One of Rome..burnte that most Reuerende Father D. Cranmere at Rome in a mummerie. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. D2^v Prouide me foure Visards, Foure Gownes, a boxe, and a Drumme, For I intend to go in mummery. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. 86 Divers mummeries of several inventions were represented. 1719 E. Fenton in T. Southerne Spartan Dame Prol. sig. A3^v Your Fathers..Disdain'd the Mummery of foreign Strollers. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (U. S. ed. 2) v. 103 Masqueings or mummeries were favourite sports at Christmas in old times. 1973 R. L. Brohier Discovering Ceylon xii. 169 A common and everyday practice which accredits an extensive belief in the influence of the evil eye can be traced in the various forms of mummery associated with religious processions called perahera. 1986 T. O. Echewa Crippled Dancer i. iii. 44 Over the years the carnival and the mummery had grown in importance. 2. depreciatively. Ridiculous ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual regarded as pretentious or hypocritical); an instance of this. Also: extravagant costume or other paraphernalia associated with or worthy of such ceremony. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [noun] > ridiculous or hypocritical mumming1528 mummery1549 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun] mumming1528 trumpery1542 mummery1549 1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John x. f. 1–4, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II Pompous byshops and monkyshe mumry. 1590–1 R. Bruce Serm. 259 Ye see they have already preferred the leaven of the Pharisees and gone to mumchances, mummeries and unknown language. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 63 She's invisible, under the lock and key of the Prelates.., they onely are..the go-betweens of this trim devis'd mummery. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 101 The Heathen Religion, which consisted all in Mommery and Madness. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. i. 143 Elves and Fairies, and other such Mummery . View more context for this quotation 1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta II. xviii. 8 There is so much nonsense and mummery in their worship, that they are afraid lest strangers should believe they are serious. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans* II. vii. 126 Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xvi. 259 When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men..had crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, the house felt wholesomer. 1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. ii. 104 She was an artist or designer of some sort in what was called an ecclesiastical warehouse..and she was no doubt abandoned to mummeries on that account—if not quite a Papist. 1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction xviii. 281 The little children..waiting for Father Christmas in his fine mummery of red and white and cotton wool to hand the presents from the Yule-tide tree. 1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday iii. 65 The preposterous vocabulary of its [sc. the Ku Klux Klan's] ritual could be made the vehicle for all that infantile love of hocus-pocus and mummery..which survives in the adult. 1984 R. Howard Lining Up iii. 61 Let other men indulge the mummery endorsed by these obsequious thoroughfares with such abandon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1465
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