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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1635
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Pageant, Padgean(t, Padȝ(e)an(e, n. Also: -en, -in; pag(g)-, peg(g)an(e; padȝen, padȝand; -ȝeoun; paidgin(e; piadȝan; badgeand, bagan. Also irregular variants: pangean, panȝean. [ME. and e.m.E. pagent (1392–3), -eunt, pachand, pajant, paiande (15th c.), paiaunt, pageaunt(e, -eant, -eyond, etc. (16th c.), var. with accrescent -t of pagyn (c 1380), -in (a 1603). Cf. contemporary Anglo-Lat. pagenda (1411), pagina (1432), also plur. pagentes (1390), a stage, a representation.Of obscure origin: the connection, if any, with ME. and OF. pagine etc., L. pāgina, a page or leaf (see Pagent n.), remains uncertain.]
A pageant, in the usual senses.a. A (movable) stage or platform on which plays were performed. b. A play, tableau, mime or other representation performed or shown on this.To play a pageant, to perform a play.(1) 1505–6 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 120.
Tua of ilke craft to pas with the pageant that thai furnys 1507 Lanark B. Rec. in Mill Mediæval Plays 261.
Padȝen 1507 Edinb. B. Ct. Bk. 6.
The ballies … chargit … the goldsmythis … to furnis thair padgeant of the passion 1526 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 159.
Togiddyr with all pageantis & sportis & plesand pastymes quhilk salbe diuisit [etc.] 1530 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 124.
Pagganis 1532 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 125.
The wanting of thair pagane in Corpus Christi processioun 1633 Edinb. B. Rec. VII. 119.
The pagin now standing at that plaice 1634 Edinb. Treas. Acc. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 213.
Certane dailles of the padgines 1635 Edinb. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 212.
Debursit … in erecting of pagins [etc.](b) 1515–6 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 122.
To furnys thar partis and badgeandis1551 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 128.
Baganis(c) 1530 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 449.
Euery craft with … thair pegane1538 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 126.
Peggane1554 Aberd. Trades 60.(d) 1634 Edinb. B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 214.
The hardine of the saidis paidgines(e)1531 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. 22 May in Mill Mediæval Plays 125.
The craftis ar chargit to furneis thair panȝeanys vnderwrittin [etc.] 1533 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. 12 June in Mill Mediæval Plays 125,
Pangeanis(2) c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxvii. 51.
Pleasant padgeanes playit prattelie 1533–4 Haddington B. Rec. (Robb) 29 Jan.
The crafts consented … to play thair pageants on Corpus Crists day 1537 Haddington B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæval Plays 249.
Pagenis 15.. Clariodus ii. 1663.
Betwix coursis was ane padȝeane playit 15.. Ib. 1670.
Eik was thair synis of padȝeanis playit dumbe 15.. Ib. v. 787.
Padȝeounis(b) 1541 Haddington B. Rec. MS. in Mill Mediæv. Plays 249.
Piadȝanis
c. Applied, dyslogistically, to a religious rite or service. —1558-66 Knox I. 345.
Tables … holy aneuch for the preast and his padgean 1562-3 Winȝet II. 10/7.
Quha for his parte of the new padȝeane of his desperat brethir [etc.]
d. A specific part of a performance; a scene. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 109 (B).
Than cryd Mahoun for a heleand padȝane [: Makfadȝane; M. padȝeane] 1533 Bell. Livy II. 141/29.
He tuke away the craftismen and playaris … fra the myd padȝane of thir playis 1533 Ib. I. 191/20.
e. To play (one's) pageant, to play one's part (in a performance or in life). —c1500-c1512 Dunb. iv. 46 (Ch. & M.).
Makaris amang the laif Playis heir ther pageant [B. padȝanis, M. padȝandis] syne gois to graif 1591-2 Rob Stene 17.
Ȝe his jugling can not see … Quhill he haif plaid his padȝeane weill
