espialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈspaɪ.əl/, /ɛˈspaɪ.əl/

• 韻: -aɪəl

名詞

espial (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 espials)

1. An act of noticing or observing.

   Synonym: (廃れた用法) espy

   • 1814, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], OCLC 1061889661, stanza XVII, lines 597–600, page 30:

     Secure—unnoted—Conrad's prow pass'd by, / And anchor'd where his ambush meant to lie; / Screen'd from espial by the jutting cape, / That rears on high its rude fantastic shape.

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, page 232:

     She had, however, the comfort of knowing that her lady's wardrobe was in her power, but it did not avail her much, as the servants of the house were so shocked at the Frenchwoman's refusal to nurse her sick lady, that every eye was upon her in the way of espial and condemnation; […]

2. The fact of noticing or observing; a discovery.
3. (obsolete) A scout; a spy.

   Synonym: (廃れた用法) espy

   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 または 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622:

     these be most necessarie for the espials belonging vnto a camp

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:

     King. Sweet Gertrude leave us too,
     For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
     That he, as 'twere by accident, may there
     Affront Ophelia. Her Father[ ]and my selfe (lawful espials)
     Will so bestow our selves, that seeing unseene
     We may of their encounter frankely judge