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gramarye

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[ gram-uh-ree ]

noun

  1. occult learning; magic.


gramarye

/ ˈɡæəɪ /

noun

  1. archaic.
    magic, necromancy, or occult learning
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of gramarye1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English gramary, from Old French gramaire, literally, “grammar, Latin grammar.” In the Middle Ages gramarye was restricted to “higher” learning, written in Latin and including occult sciences and magic. See grammar
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of gramarye1

C14: from Old French gramaire grammar
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“It is a puzzling life in Gramarye,” he said to himself, trying to keep his mind off the young Queen.

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He was the most typical figure of Gramarye, his tar being the antiseptic of his sheep.

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There would be a day—there must be a day—when he would come back to Gramarye with a new Round Table which had no corners, just as the world had none—a table without boundaries between the nations who would sit to feast there.

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It was not that Arthur was a prig—it was that his country of Gramarye lay in such a toil of anarchy in the early days that some idea like the Round Table was needed to make the place survive.

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While the damsel is weeping, which she did in a charming and determined way, we had better explain about the tournaments which used to take place in Gramarye in the early days.

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