English
Etymology
vine + yard
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Noun
en-noun
- obsolete spelling of|vineyard
#*1533 (1651 pub.), s:Author:Henry Cornelius Agrippa|Henry Cornelius Agrippa, s:De Occulta Philosophia/Book 3/Part 1|De Occulta Philosophia
#*:...therefore they who are more religiously and holily instructed, neither set a tree nor plant their vinyard, nor undertake any mean work without divine invocation...
#*1623,, Sir Francis Bacon, Letter to the Decipherer
#*:To the garden,
#*:Whose western side, circummured with brick,
#*:Is with a vinyard back�d.
#*:To that vinyard is a planchéd gate
#*:That makes his opening by a little door
#*:Which from the garden to the vinyard leads.
#*1788 (1876 pub.), Mrs. Godwin Senior (as quoted by Charles Kegan Paul), William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Henry S. King and Co. pub. (1876), p. 55
#*:...she may not be as the fig-tree whome the master of the vinyard came seeking fruit and found none.
References
"vinyard" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G & C. Merriam, 1828.
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