Forms: 4 iugolori, iugulori, iogelery, iugelri, iugilrie, iogelrye, 4–5 iogolori, -ry, 5 iogelorye, iogulyrye, iogulrye, ioglerie, 6 iouglarie, iuglarie, -ry, 7 juglary, 9 jugglery. [ME. a. OF. jogle-, juglerie (12th c.), also jogelerie, later jouglerie, f. jogler: see JUGGLER and -ERY.]
1. The art or practice of a juggler; † minstrelsy, play; pretended magic or witchcraft; conjuring, legerdemain.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 19522. He wroght be-for þam gret ferli, And al was wit his Iugolori [v.r. iugelri].
c. 1386. Chaucer, Frankl. T., 537. To maken illusion By swich an apparence or Iogelrye.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. xlvii. (1869), 198. Michel he loueth swich organe and swich song and swich jogelorye.
1552. Abp. Hamilton, Catech. (1884), 49. Quhasaevir usis wichecraft, Nicromansie, Enchantment, Juglarie.
1830. Scott, Demonol., 81. Possessed … professionally of some skill in jugglery.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xii. 126. I could not detect them in any resort to jugglery or natural magic.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 50. The service appears little better than a profane sacerdotal jugglery.
2. transf. The playing of tricks likened to those of a juggler; trickery, deception.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., iv. (1700), 63. They could [not] … pretend that there was any Deceit or Juglary in them.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xvii. This is a mere trick … the rascal had made himself sure of the existence of this old well … before he played off this mystical piece of jugglery.
1828. J. Ballantyne, Exam. Human Mind, III. x. Neither by these denominations, nor by any other jugglery of words can he alter the nature of the case.
1838. Prescott, Ferd. & Is. (1846), III. xiii. 85. As gross an example of political jugglery and falsehood.
3. attrib.
1563. Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Quest., Wks. 1888, I. 87. [If he] did thir thingis veralie and indeid, or be ane certane jouglarie craft.
1883. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., April, 690/2. It looked like some insane jugglery practice.
