mournival means in the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.“Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!”
- A set of four people or things; a quartet.“It was, as we shall have occasion to emphasize, not an accidental circumstance that the terror-novel was in the fullest flush of popularity during the seventeen-nineties, and it was also in this decade that Mrs. Radcliffe wrote and published her most characteristic works, A Sicilian Romance, 1790; The Romance of the Forest, 1791; The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794; and The Italian, or, The Confessiona”