gramarye
名词 n.
英 /ˈɡɹæməɹi/
美 /ˈɡɹæməɹi/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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; […]
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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.
词源
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).
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