arietationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

arietation (countable and uncountable, plural arietations)

1. (obsolete) The use of a battering ram, or similar.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     the strength of the percussion , wherein likewise ordnance do exceed all arietations and ancient inventions

2. (obsolete, figurative) The act of striking, attacking or conflicting.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     tumultuary motions, cross thwartings, and arietations of other particles, especially when for one way of hitting right, there are thousands of missing

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参照

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