gramarye means the island of Britain. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
gramarye is pronounced /ˈɡɹæməɹi/.
Why “gramarye” is a great word
GRAMARYE — [Noun] The enchanted essence of legendary Britain, especially of the Arthurian realm, understood as a land of mystical learning and faerie enchantment. From Middle English gramarie, from Old French gramaire ('grammar, learning'), from Latin grammatica, from Greek grammatikē (tekhnē) ('art of letters'); the sense shifted from 'learning' to 'occult learning, magic' in the late Middle English period. The specific use as a name for a magical Britain was popularized by T.H. White in 'The Once and Future King' (1958), borrowing from Rudyard Kipling's poem 'Puck's Song' (1906). Unlike 'Logres,' which charts the kingdom's chivalric borders, or 'grimoire,' which is a mere spellbook of instructions, Gramarye is the living, breathing land itself. It is the glimmer of water in a hidden forest spring, the echo of a horn in a twilight wood, and the specific quality of light that falls on a standing stone—the persistent, melancholic truth that some worlds are made not of stone, but of story.
Etymology
Adopted by English author Terence Hanbury White (1906–1964) in his book The Once and Future King (1958; based on shorter works published between 1938 and 1941) as a name for Britain, based on the reference to “Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye” in the poem Puck’s Song from Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906) by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) – the stanza italicized below, which is the last in the poem, appears in White’s book just before the start of the first chapter.
Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn;
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!
She is not any common Earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare.
Kipling is likely to have been referring to an isle of magic (see gramarye) rat
name
- The island of Britain.“You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again— […]”
noun
- Grammar; learning.“[…] I dearly love to climb / Time's ladder, and identify / Myself with worthies long gone by – / And Lucerne seems (at least to me) / Fit circle for such gramarye; […]”
- Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery.“My mother was a weſterne woman / And learned in gramaryè, / And when I learned at the ſchole, / Something ſhee taught itt me.”