These branches [of the divine life] are three, whose names though trivial and vulgar, yet, if rightly understood, they bear such a sense with them that nothing more weighty can be pronounced by the tongue of men or seraphims, and in brief they are these, Charity, Humility, and Purity.—H. More, Grand Mystery of Godliness, b. ii. c. 12.
Trumpery. That which is deceitful is without any worth; and ‘trumpery,’ which was formerly deceit, fraud (tromperie), is now anything which is worthless and of no account. Was Milton’s use of the word in his well-known line, ‘Black, white and gray, with all their trumpery’ (P. L. iii. 475), our present, or that earlier?
When truth appeared, Rogero hated more
Alcyna’s trumperies, and did them detest,
Than he was late enamourèd before.
Sir J. Harington, Orlando Furioso, b. vii.
Britannicus was now grown to men’s estate, a true and worthy plant to receive his father’s empire; which a grafted son by adoption now possessed by the injury and trumpery of his mother.—Greenwey, Tacitus, p. 182.
Turk. It is a remarkable evidence of the extent to which the Turks and the Turkish assault upon Christendom had impressed themselves on the minds of men, of the way in which they stood as representing the entire Mahometan world, that ‘Turk,’ being in fact a national, is constantly employed by the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a religious, designation, as equivalent to, and coextensive with, Mahometan; exactly as Ἔλλην in the New Testament means continually not of Greek nationality, but of Gentile religion.
Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, infidels, and heretics.—Collect for Good Friday.
It is no good reason for a man’s religion, that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.—Chillingworth, Religion of Protestants, part i. c. 2.