troubadour (trobador)

[F. troubadour, of early poets who first appeared in Provence, France. The troubadours were considered the inventors of a species of lyrical poetry, characterized by an almost entire devotion to the subject of chivalric love, and generally very complicated in regard to meter and rime. They flourished from the eleventh to the latter part of the thirteenth century, principally in the south of France, Catalonia, Aragon, and northern Italy. The most renowned among the troubadours were knights who cultivated music and poetry as a polite accomplishment; but the art declined, and in its later days was chiefly cultivated by an inferior cla of minstrels. See trouvère. troublablet (trub'la-bl), a. [ME. troublable, Lecherie torment eth hem in that oon syde with gredy venims and trowblable ire. Chaucer , Boëthius, iv. meter 2. trouble (trub'l), v .; pret. and pp. troubled , ppr. troubling. [ troublen , trublen (also transposed turblen ), troubler , trubler, trobler, also tourbler , turbler , torbler , F. troubler, trouble, disturb, turbulare , turbula , disorderly group, a little crowd of people, dim. of turba , crowd (> turbare , disturb), = Gr. τύρβη , disorder, throng, bustle (> τυρβάζειν , disturb): see turbid , turbulent , and cf. disturb , disturble .] I. trans. 1. To stir up; agitate; disturb; put into commotion. An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John v. 4. Shak., T. of the S., v. 2. 142. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled. IMG:content-0950.png:[blocks in formation] Nothing troubles social life so much as originality, or political life so much as the spirit of liberty. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 140. 4. To put to trouble, inconvenience, pains, or exertion of some kind: used conventionally in courteous requests: as, may I trouble you to shut the door? Your master 's a right honest man, and one I am much beholding to, and must very shortly Trouble his love again. Fletcher, Wild goose Chase, v. 2. I shall trouble you to give my services to my friends at Oxford. Arbuthnot , in Letters of Eminent Men, I. 180. To cast oil on troubled water. See water. = Syn. 3. Afflict, Distre , etc. (see afflict ); perplex, agitate, plague, pester, badger, disquief, make uneasy, anxious, or restle . II. in trans. 11. To become turbid or cloudy. Put a Drope of Bawme in clere Watre, in a Cuppe of Sylver or in a clere Bacyn, and gif that the Bawme be fyn and of his owne kynde, the Watre schalle nevere trou ble. Mandeville , Travels, p. 52. 2. To take trouble or pains; trouble one's self; worry: as, do not trouble about the matter. We have not troubled to shade the outside of this diagram. J. Venn, Symbolic Logic, p. 281, note. trouble (trubʻl), n. [ * trouble , truble , tru buil , torble , turble , trouble , tourble , trouble, also a crowd, F. trouble , trouble; from the verb.) 1. Vexation; perplexity; worry; difficulties; trials; affliction. Man is born unto trouble , as the sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. When we might be happy and quiet, we create trouble to ourselves. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 205. 2. Annoyance; molestation; persecution. For "Ioseph shulde dye" playnly dyd they say, But pacyently all theyr truble dyd he endure. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 38. Tyre alone gave those two powerful princes, Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great, more trouble than any Pococke , Description of the East, II. 84. 3. Disturbing, annoying, or vexatious circumstance, affair, or state; distre ; difficulty. To take arms against a sea of troubles . other state in the course of all their wars. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 59. What was his Trouble with his Brother Geoffrey but a Bird of his own hatching? Baker , Chronicles, p. 53. 6502 Fears concerning his own state had been the trouble with which he had hitherto contended. Southey , Bunyan, p. 24. The trouble about owning a cottage at a watering-place is that it makes a duty of a pleasure. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 193. 4. A source or cause of annoyance, perplexity, or distre : as, he is a great trouble to us.-5. Labor; laborious effort: as, it is no trouble . Is twenty hundred ki es such a trouble ? Shak., Venus and Adonis, l. 522. Insomuch as they have not dared to hazard the revenue of Ægypt by sea, but have sent it over land with a guard of Souldiers, to their no small trouble and expences. Sandys , Travailes, p. 40. 6. In law, particularly French law, anything causing injury or damage such as is the subject of legal relief.-7. A disease, or a diseased condition; an affection: as, a cancerous trouble. -8. In mining, a small fault. Also called a throw, slide, slip, heave, or check. =Syn. 1-3. Inconvenience, embarra ment, anxiety, adversity, misfortune, calamity, sorrow, tribulation, misery, plague, torment. See the verb. troublet, a. Same as troubly. troubledlyt (trub'ld-li), adv. In a troubled or confused manner; confusedly. Our meditations must proceed in due order; not trou bledly , not preposterously. Bp . Hall , Divine Meditation, xvi. trouble-houset (trub'l-hous), n. [ trouble , v., + obj. house1 .] A disturber of the peace of a house or household. Ill-bred louts, simple sots, or peevish trouble - houses. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 53.