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MESS (an adaptation of O. Fr. mes, mod. mets; Ital. messo; derived from the Late Lat. missum, past participle of mittere " to send or place in position ")

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 188 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MESS (an adaptation of O. Fr. mes, mod. mets; Ital. messo; derived from the Late Lat. missum, past participle of mittere " to send or place in position ") , a service of
meat
 , a dish sent to table. The
term
  is also used of the persons who are in the habit of eating their meals together, and thus particularly of the parties into which a ship's company or a
regiment
  is divided, either 'according to their rank, or for convenience in catering. Originally, a
mess
  in this sense was a group of four persons sitting atone table and helped from the same dishes. In the Inns of
Court
 , London, the
original
  number is preserved, four benchers or four students dining together.
In early times the word
mess
  was applied to food of a more or less liquid
character
 , as soup, porridge, broth, &c. It is probably in allusion to the sloppy nature of semi-liquid messes of food that a mess has come also to mean a state of disorder, confusion and discomfort. Skeat takes the word in this sense to be a variant of " mash," originally to mix up.


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