pupivorous (pupivorus)

[ In entom., furnished with a central dark n. A Middle English form of people. Rave, talk idly, as 'twere some deity, Adoring female painted puppetry . Marston , Scourge of Villanie (ed. 1599), viii. 204. Your dainty ten-times-drest buff, with this language, Bold man of arms, shall win upon her, doubt not, Beyond all silken puppetry . Ford , Lady's Trial, ii. 1. The theatre seems to me almost as bad as the church; it is all puppetry alike. S. Judd , Margaret, ii. 11. 2. The exhibition of puppets or puppet-shows; a puppet-show. How outragiously are their preistes and chirches orned and gorgiously garni hed in their popetry , pa e tymes, and apes playe. Joye, Expos. of Dan. vii. Thou profane profe or of puppetry , little better than poetry. B. Jonson , Bartholomew Fair, v. 3. A grave proficient in amusive feats Of puppetry . Words worth, Excursion, v.