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gramarye¹
- /ˈɡɹæməɹi/ US, UK
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English gramarie, from Old French gramarie, a variant of gramaire; thus a doublet of glamour, glamoury, grammar, and grimoire. The word was revived by Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832).
noun gramary · grammary
- Grammar; learning. […] I dearly love to climb / Time's ladder, and identify / Myself with worthies long gone by – / And Lucerne seems (at least to me) / Fit circle for such gramarye; […]
- Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery. My mother was a weſterne woman / And learned in gramaryè, / And when I learned at the ſchole, / Something ſhee taught itt me.
Gramarye²
- /ˈɡɹæməɹi/ US, UK
Where it comes from
Adopted by English author T. H. White as a name for Britain in his book The Once and Future King (1958; based on shorter works published between 1938 and 1941), in allusion to the line “Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye” from the Rudyard Kipling poem “Puck’s Song” (1906). The final stanza of the poem, italicized below, appears as an epigraph in White’s book. Kipling was using the word gramarye in the sense “magic”, but White jocularly reinterpreted it as a place-name.
Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn;
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!
She is not any common Earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare.
proper noun
- The island of Britain. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again— […]
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