beholdとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈhəʊld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɪˈhoʊld/

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) To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:

     […] 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; […]

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     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. (intransitive) To look.
3. (transitive) To contemplate.

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.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:look

派生語

• beholder
  • eye of the beholder

間投詞

behold

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

参照

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