Meryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

mery

1. Obsolete form of merry. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 1526, John Rastell, Hermann Oesterley, editor, A Hundred Mery Talys: From the Only Perfect Copy Known (published 1866), page 57:

     A Yonge gentylman of the age of .xx. yere some whate dysposyd to myrth and game on a tyme talkyd with a gentylwoman which was ryght wyfe and also mery.

   • 1533, R. Saltwood, A comparyson bytwene. iiij. byrdes, the larke, the nyghtyngale, ye thrusshe [and] the cuko, for theyr syngynge who shuld be chauntoure of the quere

     As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.

   • 1581, William Sandys, Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols (published 2020):

     At Christmas be mery, and thanke god of alll And feast thy pore neighbours, the great with the small.

   • 1596, Hugh Latimer, Frutefull Sermons, page 52:

     There was a mery Monke in Cambridge in the college that I was in, and it chanced a great company of us to be together, intending to make good cheare, to be mery (as scholers wd by mery when they are disposed:)