decurtateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

decurtate (comparative more decurtate, superlative most decurtate)

1. (rare) Shortened, curtailed.
   • 1859, F. Hall, Vásavadattá (Preface 8):

     Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.

動詞

decurtate (third-person singular simple present decurtates, present participle decurtating, simple past and past participle decurtated)

1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To cut short.
   • 1973, Sōji Iwasaki, The Sword and the Word: Shakespeare's Tragic Sense of Time, page 15:

     Other writers there are, that would haue him signifie Tyme, as that with his sythe he should measure and proportionise the length of Time, and therewith to decurtate and cut away all things contained therein.

関連する語

• decurtation

アナグラム

• eructated