▪ I. tourney, n.1
(ˈtʊənɪ, ˈtɜːnɪ)
Forms: α. 4 torneie, -aie, 5 -eye, -oye, 5–6 -ey, -oy, 6 -ay. β. 4–7 turnay, 4–8 -ey, -y, 6 -ei(e, -oye, -oi. γ. 4 tourneie, 4–9 -ay, 5 -eye, -oy, 6 -ai, 6–7 -oi, 4– tourney.
[ME. a. OF. tornei (Enéas, c 1150), turnei, tornai, tournay, F. tournoi, vbl. n. f. tornei-er, tourney v. So Prov. tornei, It., Sp., Pg. torneo.]
1. a. = tournament 1.
| α c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1641 (1669) In werre or torney [v.r. tournay] Marcial. c 1440 Lovelich Merlin 9614 There departed the Torneye anon. c 1483 Caxton Dialogues 45/27 Reyner the squyer Is atte Justes At the tornoye. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon xxi. 62, I..hauntyd the iustes & tornoys. a 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV 197 b, These ij valeant persones coped together in the tornay. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. iii. (1599) 107 The King..amused the time about iustes, torneys, and other pleasures of Court. |
| β 13.. K. Alis. 141 Ladies loven solas, and play · Swaynes, justes; knyghtis, turnay [Bodl. MS. tournay]. 1516 St. Bridget in Myrr. our Ladye p. lv, In turneys and in vanytes of the worlde. 1550 J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §125 (1877) 95 Assaultes, turnois, scremuses and syeges. 1556 Chron. Gr. Friars 27 The kynge helde ryall justes, turnayes, & bankettes six dayes after. 1558 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 70 The apparell & Trappers..appointed..for his Justes & Turneis. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxvii. 146 All sortes of turnoyes and cumbates. 1632 Milton Penseroso 118 Great Bards..have sung, Of Turneys and of Trophies hung. 1742 Collins Ode Poet. Char. 7 The magic Girdle..At solemn Turney hung on high. |
| γ 13.. Seuyn Sag. 719 In a mede was this tourney Of men that were of gret noblai. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xix. 27 There was also great iustes, tourneys, daunsyng, carolyng, and great feastis euery day. 1552 Huloet, Tournay, vide in turnay. 1556 Aurelie & Isab. (1608) E iv, She can not keape hir from the danses, jostes, tournois. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diod. Sic. iii. xviii. 134 For the sportes, tournais, and diuerse other pastimes. 1625 Bacon Ess., Masques & Triumphs (Arb.) 540 For Iusts, and Tourneys. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 193 The suit of armour..embellished as if to figure in the tournay. 1868 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) II. viii. 265 Not justing with his lance as in a mimic tourney. |
| fig. 1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 33 A few days' trial, a tournay of keen lawyers..and the poor man walked out of court beat. |
† b. Applied to ancient games;
= tournament 1 c.
Obs.| 1485 Caxton Trevisa's Higden ii. xxxii. (1527) 87 b, There the Iliens haue theyr tornamentes from iiij yere to iiij yere, so that iiij yere was bytwene the tornoyes. 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 103 Cæsar the first Romane emperor..not sparing any cost upon plaies, turneies, feastes, largesses, and other baits to curry favour. 1600 Holland Livy xxix. xxii. 726 The land souldiours, running and charging one another at turney. 1601 ― Pliny viii. ii. I. 192 In the late solemnitie of tournois & sword-fight at the sharpe, which Germanicus Cæsar exhibited to gratifie the people. |
c. = tournament n. 3.
| 1890 J. Rayner Chess Problems 15 If..one should creep into a problem deemed by him..to be fit for a tourney, it will be useful..to know that the German school of problematists is less puritanical than the English. Ibid. 28 In solution and problem tourneys..it is necessary to throw aside all conventionalities. 1950 Sun (Baltimore) 20 June 21/6 It was really rather astonishing to watch this youth club his way through the tourney to a sturdy victory..in a 36-hole grind. 1951 Sport 30 Mar.–5 Apr. 10/2 J. Parsons..outscored Billy McHale, newly-crowned Northern Counties A.B.A. champion, in the miners' divisional tourney. 1971 Rand Daily Mail 4 Sept. 2/9 The Government's new sports policy..has guaranteed a welcome for all teams for next year's Federation Cup tennis tourney. 1976 Star (Sheffield) 3 Dec. 28/8 Last week with the results boosted by the netball tourney..there were 140 results in the Hotline columns. |
2. attrib. and
Comb., as
tourney-day,
tourney-fall,
tourney-field,
tourney-fight,
tourney-prize;
† tourney-head, ? a blunt spearhead used in a tournament;
tourney-helm, a helmet worn in tournaments, with light open bars across the face; distinguished from a
tilting-helm;
tourney-queen, the ‘queen of beauty’ at a tournament.
| 1813 Scott Trierm. iii. xxxvii, Forgot was that fell *tourney-day. |
| 1886 J. Richmond Pref. Notice to Chatterton's Poet. Wks. 25 The gay crowd of the *tourney-field. |
| 1872 Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 88 In those brain-stunning shocks and *tourney-falls. |
| 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xxv, Victor in Woodstock's *tourney-fight. |
| 1506–7 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 364 Tua tournay suordis, four *tournay hedis to the tournay. |
| 1872 Tennyson Last Tourn. 32 Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence, And make them..a *tourney-prize. |
| 1848 Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iii. 97 Now ruffling up like any *tourney queen. |
▪ II. † tourney, -ay, n.2 Obs. Also 5–6
turn-.
[a. OF. tornee (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), F. tournée, It. tornata, ppl. n. from tourner, tornare to turn; lit. a turning, going round, circuit.] † 1. The sheriff's tourn: see
tourn.
Obs. rare.
| a 1500 in Arnolde's Chron. (1811) 181 All maner preuylegis frauncheses hundredis wapentakes leetis rapis vyew of frank⁓pledge sherefs turnays sherefgyldes amerciamentis. |
† 2. One's turn in order or rotation.
Obs. rare.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 29 b, Also what lordes or Gentylmen haue their tourneyse [1539 turneys] with them in the same benifyce..who shall haue next. |
▪ III. tourney, v. (
ˈtʊənɪ,
ˈtɜːnɪ)
Forms: see
tourney n.1 [ME. a. OF. tornei-er, -ey-er, tornai-er, -ay-er (later tornoi-ier, -oy-er, tournoy-er, etc. = Pr. torneiar, -ejar, torniar, Cat. tornejar, Sp., Pg. tornear, It. torneggiare:—Romanic type *tornizāre, *tornidiāre, f. torno, L. torn-us n. or torn-āre vb.: see turn n. and v. Tornizāre was a secondary formation, with a specific sense, referring to wheeling or evolutions.] intr. To take part in a tourney; to contend or engage in a tournament.
| α 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 611 Mani a gentil kniȝt Torneande riȝt in þe feld. Ibid. 3774 Þanne seide Beues vnto Terry: ‘Wile we tornaie for þat leuedy?’ 1390 Gower Conf. I. 126 On jousteth wel, on other bet, And otherwhile thei torneie. c 1440 Lovelich Merlin 7177 Þere eche man torneyed with oþer. 1470–85 Malory Arthur vii. xi. 228 His custome is..to lye in this medowe to Iuste and torneye. |
| β c 1435 Torr. Portugal 2591 They justyd and turneyd there. 1513 Douglas æneis v. x. 10 Bid hym bring hiddir his rowtis to turnay. 1567 Drant Horace, De Arte Poet. B iv, He dare not turney, not yet tilte which neuer knew the play. 1600 Holland Livy xxvi. li. 624 He conversed among the legions, and turnoied with them. |
| γ 13.. K. Alis. 195 (Bodl. MS.) Þer was kniȝttes tourneying [v.r. turnyng]. 1470–85 Malory Arthur i. v. 41 Alle knyȝtes that wold Iuste or tourneye. a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) D iij, Yf he vse armes, all wil tourney. 1570 Levins Manip. 197/15 To Tournay, hastis concurrere. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 803/1 So presented themselues..readie to tourneie. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 86 Because he might not Tourney. 1715 tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. iv. xviii. 227 There were..tourneying together with coursing Chariots. 1855 Singleton Virgil I. 189 They tourney; in high heaven a din is raised. |
b. transf.| a 1400–50 Alexander 5429 Ilka twelmonth a turne þai [snakes] turnay to-gedire. |