Mournival

Quick meaning: Mournival is a noun meaning (card games, obsolete) In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.

Meaning

(card games, obsolete) In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, archaic, rare) A set of four people or things; a quartet.

Example Sentences

The Emperor, flanked by his Custodes, and Horus along with his Mournival of captains teleported onto the ship, but were scattered across the vast command decks by sinister magicks.

Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!

“[…] And there are those two girls to provide for. Isabella, Isabella—I always think of them as half a mournival of Isabellas—but what the deuce are their other names?” “Isabella Lees and Isabella Brownwood,” said Thomas.

Four plumbers came by a little while ago, looked at the leaks, and left to go to lunch. I guess, lacking a penis, that I'm not qualified to note that, yes indeedy, there is a leak from the ceiling in the lab. Or, perhaps, they it^([sic]) would take a mournival of manly men to keep lil' ole' me from panicking. They milled around in the hall for a minute, told me they's be back, and left.

Word Forms

• mournivals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greet, mourn, simagre, morne, mourneress, greefe.

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