minchery Hist.
(ˈmɪntʃərɪ)
Forms: 7 mincherie, minchionrea, 8 minshery, 9 mynchery, 8– minchery.
[f. minchen + -ry.
First recorded as the proper name of the conventual building at Littlemore near Oxford, and thence adopted in general application by archaizing writers.]
| 1661 Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 403 An antient house called Mincherie, or Minchionrea, that is ‘the place of nunns’, founded there of old time. 1710 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 84 A great many..Bones of Men, etc., found at the Minshery by Littlemore. 1841 F. E. Paget Tales of Village (1852) 225 Upon condition that a mynchery (as the Saxon nunneries were called) should be forthwith erected. 1893 W. D. Macray Catal. Bodl. MSS. v. iii. 474 The view of Littlemore Minchery is given in three states. |