Citations:mistrum

English citations of mistrum

the Middle English(-derived) word

• 1853, James Morton, The ancren riwle: a treatise on the rules and duties of monastic life. Edited and translated from a semi-Saxon ms. of the thirteenth century, page 263:

  […] any one reflects well on this, would she be dissatisfied with the mistrum, or the scanty meal of unsavory food, or with the poor pittance?

gibberish:

• 2009, I. Smith, Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors, Springer (→ISBN), page 181:

  John Taylor's supposed redaction of "Certain verses written in the Barbarian tongue, dropt out of a Negroes pocket" offers a mingle-mangle imitation of European-style verse-forms: "Mistrum fog smoakrash, choakerumques olifatrish trash/ Dam durticuu belchum, contagioshte vomitroshe” (253).

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French citations of mistrum

• 1615, L'Histoire du Monde de C. Pline second [Pline l'Ancien]:

  Le cyathe tient quatre mistrum. [...] Le cyathe tint quatre Mistrum:montans deux onces,& deux dragmes. Le Mistrum tient quatre dragmes & demie.

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Latin citations of mistrum

• c. 980, Abbo of Fleury, quoted in 2003, A. M. Peden, Abbo of Fleury and Ramsey: Commentary on the Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine, page 60:

  DE REBUS LIQUIDIS^h

  Duo coclearia clemeⁱ dicuntur (coclearium^j scripulus et quarta pars scripuli)^k; quattuor clemeses mistrum faciunt; mister (X scripuli)^l quarta pars chiati est^m.