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gramary

gramary is the alternative form of gramarye.

Meaning of gramarye

Noun

gramarye (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) 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; […]1835 April, “Tour of Oliver Yorke’s Rhyming Cousin”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXIV, London: James Fraser, 215 Regent Street, →OCLC, page 405
  2. (archaic) 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.1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “King Estmere”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book I, page 64, lines 143–146

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Questions about gramary

What is gramary the alternative form of?
Gramary is the alternative form of gramarye.

Words near gramary in the dictionary

  1. gramagrass
  2. gramagrasses
  3. Gramajo
  4. Gramajos
  5. Graman
  6. gramary
  7. gramarye
  8. gramas
  9. gramash
  10. gramashes
  11. gramatically

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