categiseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

First attested around the turn of the sixteenth century. The origin is uncertain; derivation is perhaps from the Ancient Greek καταιγίζω (kataigízō, “I rush down like a storm”), from καταιγίς (kataigís, “a storm descending from above”, 比喩的に “battle”).

別の表記

• categize

動詞

categise (三人称単数 現在形 categises, 現在分詞 categising, 過去形および過去分詞形 categised)

1. (まれに) Thrash (verbally または physically).
   • 1580–1615, an unknown source, quoted in: Henk Gras, All Semblative a Woman’s Part? (1991), page 241:

     Conceale your qualitie till we be private; if your parts be worthie of me, I will countenance you, if not, categize you.

   • 1962, The Philosopher XIII, page 49:

     Thus he categised the churches of his day as “The mills of Satan”, where men “in his synagogues worship Satan under the unalterable name”.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:categise.

語源 2

See catechism.

名詞

categise (uncountable)

1. (archaic, まれに) Pronunciation spelling of catechism.
   • 1821, D.P. Campbell, Harley Radington I, ch. xxii, p. 225:

     “Oh, sir, I’ll answer ten thousand, gin ye like till ask them, as carefully and pointedly as if I wir saying my categise.”