atiltとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ tilt

形容詞

atilt (not comparable)

1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

   The child listened, her head atilt.

   • 1902, William Dean Howells, “Worries of a Winter Walk” in Literature and Life, New York: Harper, p. 37,^[1]

     When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rock-like surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz.

   • 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 77,^[2]

     In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.

   • 1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70,

     Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,

   Synonym: tilted

副詞

atilt (not comparable)

1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.

   He wore his hat rakishly atilt.

   • 1659, Nicholas Culpeper, Culpeper’s School of Physick, London: N. Brook, “Doctor Diets Directory,” p. 300,^[3]

     Ale should not be drunk under five dayes old; new Ale is unwholsome, sowre Ale, and dead, and Ale which do stand atilt is most unwholesome.

   • 1733, Alexander Pope, The Impertinent, London: John Wileord, p. 12,^[4]

     In that nice Moment, as another Lye

     Stood just a-tilt, the Minister came by.

   • 1928, Maurice Walsh, While Rivers Run, London: W. & R. Chambers, Chapter 24,^[5]

     […] the slope flattened to a wide shelf where limestone cropped through the heather and many huge boulders were scattered atilt.

   • 1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New” in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf p. 136,^[6]

     Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?

2. Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).

   to run / ride atilt at someone or something

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

   • 1669, Samuel Lee, Contemplations on Mortality, London, Chapter 7, p. 69,^[7]

     The shadow of death to David is but the shadow of evill. Though ten thousand Curiassiers run upon him atilt with envenom’d and poysoned spears, he layes him down in the bosome of God, he sleeps in peace;

   • 1663, [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, OCLC 890163163; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346, page 79:

     Make feeble Ladies, in their Works,
     To fight like Termagants and Turks;
     To lay their native Arms aside,
     Their modesty, and ride a-stride;
     To run a-Tilt at Men, and wield
     Their naked tools in open field;

語源

a- +‎ tilt

副詞

a-tilt (comparative more a-tilt, superlative most a-tilt)

1. With a lance.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2

     To run a-tilt at men, and wield / Their naked tools in open field;

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