Middle English Dictionary Entry
mǒmming(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | mǒmming(e ger. Also moming(e, mumming(e. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Suppression of the voice; (b) a pageant, tableau, or pantomime performed in costume and masked; a mummers' play; the performance of a mummers' play.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)348 : Mummynge: Mussacio, vel mussatus.
b
- (1417) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.658 : [There shall be no] mummyng [during this Feast of Our Lord's Nativity].
- (1418) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)96/4 : The Mair and Aldermen chargen..þat no manere persone..duryng þis holy tyme of Cristemes..walk by nyght in eny manere mommyng, pleyes, enterludes, or eny oþer disgisynges.
- a1456(c1428) Lydg.Mum.Eltham (Trin-C R.3.20)p.672 : A balade made..for a momyng.
- a1456(c1430) Lydg.Mum.Windsor (Trin-C R.3.20)p.691 : Nowe foloweþe nexst þe devyse of a momyng to fore þe Kyng Henry þe Sixst.
- c1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)360/32 : Þe Duk of Surrey, þe Duk of Excestre..& oþir moo of hir afinite, were accorded to make a mummyng vnto þe King..and þere þay cast to sle þe King yn hir revelyng.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)108 : Certayne personys..hadde caste to have made a mommynge at Eltham, and undyr coloure of the mommynge to have dystryte the kyng and Hooly Chyrche.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)28 : A momynge at Wyndsore.