Beholdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈhəʊld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɪˈhoʊld/
• 韻: -əʊld, -oʊld

動詞

behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (まれに) beholden)

1. (transitive)
   1. To look at or see (someone または something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:look

      • c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

        There's not the ſmalleſt orbe [in the sky] vvhich thou beholdſt, / But in his motion like an Angell ſings, / Still quiring to the young eide Cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortall ſoules, / But vvhilſt this muddy veſture of decay [i.e., the human body] / Doth groſſely cloſe in it, vve cannot heare it.

      • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 532”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], volume (please specify the volume), Shammar edition, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

        […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]

      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

        The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.

   2. To contemplate (someone または something).
2. (intransitive) To look.

使用する際の注意点

Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

Conjugation

派生語

間投詞

behold

1. look, a call of attention to something
2. lo!

同意語

• See Thesaurus:lo

参照

• behold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• behold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913