beshieldとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -iːld

動詞

beshield (三人称単数 現在形 beshields, 現在分詞 beshielding, 過去形および過去分詞形 beshielded)

1. (transitive, archaic) To shield around or about; protect; defend.
   • 1876, Torquato Tasso, The Jerusalem delivered of Yorquato Tasso:

     Beshield thee with thy troops; find out at will Fresh instruments of war, and unknown gear; For thou shalt not scape death from this my hand, O slayer of the dames, so brave and grand.

   • 2004, Robert Thornton, The Prose Life of Alexander:

     [...] that in that same night Olympia might behold the god Hamon lying beside her, and saying to her thereafter, 'Woman, thou hast conceived him who shall beshield thee.

   • 2006, Percy Grainger, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger:

     Of course I was frightened — frightened of being struck, or beshamed, during the next tone-show — so cast about for someone to beshield me.

2. (transitive) To provide or outfit with a shield.
   • 1872, The Net:

     Our bearers now began to call themselves Natal Kafirs, fearing to say they were Zulus before the young Amaswazi warriors, beplumed, beshielded, bespeared, perched about here and there in picturesque unconsciousness of their picturesqueness.