Herseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 hierche (“type of harrow”), from Middle French herce, herse. Doublet of hearse.

名詞

herse (plural herses)

1. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
   • 1848, Benjamin Webb, Sketches of Continental Ecclesiolgy:

     In the south aisle, on a slab raised on four low shafts and covered by an iron herse, is a fine coloured recumbent effigy of a bishop

語源 2

See hearse.

名詞

herse (plural herses)

1. Obsolete form of hearse (“a carriage for the dead”).
2. (obsolete) A funeral ceremony.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

     Dido, my deare, alas!
     Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead. O heavie herse!

動詞

herse (third-person singular simple present herses, present participle hersing, simple past and past participle hersed)

1. Alternative form of hearse.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Sospetto d'Herode:

     The house is hers'd about with a black wood, Which nods with many a heavy-headed tree: Each flower's a pregnant poison, try'd and good; Each herb a plague.

   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC:

     The Grecians spritefully drew from the darts the corse, And hers'd it, bearing it to fleet.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear. O, would she were hers'd at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin.

参照

• “herse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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