mery
- Obsolete form ofmerry.
1526, John Rastell, edited by Hermann Oesterley,A Hundred Mery Talys: From the Only Perfect Copy Known (published 1866), page57: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 alsomery.
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 amery pyn.
1581, William Sandys,Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols (published 2020):At Christmas bemery, and thanke god of alll And feast thy pore neighbours, the great with the small.
1596, Hugh Latimer,Frutefull Sermons, page52:There was amery 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 bemery (as scholers wd bymery when they are disposed:)
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Inherited fromOld Englishmeriġe,miriġe,myriġe,myreġe,myrġe, fromProto-West Germanic*murgī, fromProto-Germanic*murguz, fromProto-Indo-European*mréǵʰus.Doublet ofbref.
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛriː(ə)/,/ˈmiriː(ə)/,/ˈmuriː(ə)/
mery (comparativemeriere,superlativemeriest)
- Happy, joyful, pleased; in a good mood or state of mind:
- Tending to be happy; jovial, merry, good-natured, blissful.
- Creating or pertaining to happiness; nice, good, delightful.
- (of a time or place) Happy, nice, good, bounteous.
- (of speech or sound) Useful, entertaining, appealing.
- Attractive, good-looking; pleasing to one's eyes.
- Having a good, nice or pleasing scent or smell.
- Powerful, mighty, tough; having much strength.
- (rare) Full of humor(due to drink).
- (rare) Active, fast, vigorous.
- (rare) Intelligent, smart, learned.
mery
- Merrily, gladly, jovially; in a happy or merry way.
- Pleasingly, delightfully; in a way causing happiness.
- (rare) Attractively, nicely.
- (rare) Without strength or harshness.
