jugglery
(ˈdʒʌglərɪ)
Forms: 4 iugolori, iugulori, iogelery, iugelri, iugilrie, iogelrye, 4–5 iogolori, -ry, 5 iogelorye, iogulyrye, iogulrye, ioglerie, 6 iouglarie, iuglarie, -ry, 7 juglary, 9 jugglery.
[ME. a. OF. jogle-, juglerie (12th c.), also jogelerie, later jouglerie, f. jogler: see juggler and -ery.]
1. The art or practice of a juggler; † minstrelsy, play; pretended magic or witchcraft; conjuring, legerdemain.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 19522 He wroght be-for þam gret ferli, And al was wit his Iugolori [v.r. iugelri]. c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 537 To maken illusion By swich an apparence or Iogelrye. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xlvii. (1869) 198 Michel he loueth swich organe and swich song and swich jogelorye. 1552 Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 49 Quhasaevir usis wichecraft, Nicromansie, Enchantment, Juglarie. 1830 Scott Demonol. 81 Possessed..professionally of some skill in jugglery. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. II. xii. 126, I could not detect them in any resort to jugglery or natural magic. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 50 The service appears little better than a profane sacerdotal jugglery. |
2. transf. The playing of tricks likened to those of a juggler; trickery, deception.
| 1699 Burnet 39 Art. iv. (1700) 63 They could [not]..pretend that there was any Deceit or Juglary in them. 1816 Scott Antiq. xvii, This is a mere trick..the rascal had made himself sure of the existence of this old well..before he played off this mystical piece of jugglery. 1828 J. Ballantyne Exam. Hum. Mind iii. x, Neither by these denominations, nor by any other jugglery of words can he alter the nature of the case. 1838 Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) III. xiii. 85 As gross an example of political jugglery and falsehood. |
3. attrib.
| 1563 Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. 1888 I. 87 [If he] did thir thingis veralie and indeid, or be ane certane jouglarie craft. 1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 690/2 It looked like some insane jugglery practice. |