gregalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

gregal (not comparable)

1. (rare) Pertaining to, or like, a flock.
   • 1658 [a. 1604], Thomas Muffet, “The Theatre of Insects: Or, of lesser living creatures”, in The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects […]‎, page 921:

     Now the Wasp is a winged Insect, gregal or hearding round like a ring, long, having four wings […]

   • 1660, O. Cromwells Thankes to the Lord Generall, Faithfully presented by Hugh Peters In another Conference‎, page 2:

     The old Proverb is very true, Birds of a Feather, will flock together: And so will gregal Beasts too.

   • 1873, William Starbuck Mayo, Never Again‎, page 86:

     But for this gregal conformity there is, as I have said, a cause and an excuse.

   • 1960, T. T. Paterson, Glasgow Limited: A Case-Study in Industrial War and Peace, page 15:

     Whereas the turbate group can roughly be said to be irrational and unorganised, the gregal group may be described loosely as irrational yet organised.

Further reading

• “gregal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• gargle, lagger, raggle