all-a-mortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

all-a-mort (not comparable) (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of alamort (“dejected”).
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223, column 2:

     How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?

参考

• mort

参照

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “All-a-mort”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.